"<p>It is a commendable gift of evolution (...) that human pains, fears, and sufferings disappear with personal death, nothing remains of the ups and downs, pleasures and torments. If only a single atom remained from the feelings of every unhappy, tormented person, if the inheritance of generations could increase in this way, if a single spark could jump from person to person, the world would be filled with gut-wrenching screams.</p>"