Which lines from the text most clearly suggest that the narrator will fight against nature?


When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon. . .

. . .I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.

I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature.

. . .what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!