How is Victor's friend Henry Clerval different from Victor in terms of their study and interests in Frankenstein?

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every bit as intelligent as, if not more so. However, his intelligence is combined with a deeply
compassionate nature that sets him apart from his more egoistic friend. Whereas Victor's moral
compass has catastrophically lost its bearings, Henry's remains in full working order throughout
the story.

To a large extent, this is because Henry's studies don't lead him
into the kind of moral dilemmas that Victor is forced to struggle with due to his scientific
experiments. Henry has no interest in science; his vivid imagination is too vast to concern
itself with the minutiae of "natural philosophy" (an old-fashioned expression for
science). Instead, he prefers to study Eastern languages such as Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew,
while also mastering Greek and Latin into the bargain.