Read the following passage from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:

Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay? My limbs now tremble and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
Which common notion from the historical context surrounding Frankenstein does this excerpt most clearly show?
A. Science and reason interfered with long-held beliefs about government and society.
B. Enlightenment thinking included the idea that science would solve all the world's problems within a few centuries.
C. The Romantics rejected rationalism and emphasized creativity and natural emotions.
D. Scientists were willing to do anything to further their pursuit of knowledge.