Although Victor had earlier moralized against letting the pursuit of knowledge run
away with one's sober judgment (I:3:12), here he portrays himself as indulging his
hatred with the kind of impulsiveness and lack of restraint he had displayed in Ingolstadt.
It is clear that what Alphonse Frankenstein had termed "immoderate grief" three paragraphs
earlier (II:1:3) is not Victor's problem.