Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

How does Jekyll explain the sense of "deformity and decay" Hyde seems to give off? What is Jekylls explanation for people's strong reaction to hyde?

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Jekyll quite liked the look of his Hyde, "had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome." He was, however, aware that ,

"all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."