mr. clarkes memoirs mr. clarke , the gentleman chosen by dr. raymond to witness the strange experiment of the god pan , was a person in whose character caution and curiosity were oddly mingled ; in his sober moments he thought of the unusual and eccentric with undisguised aversion , and yet , deep in his heart , there was a wide-eyed inquisitiveness with respect to all the more recondite and esoteric elements in the nature of men .