"The human heart has never accepted the idea of total evanishment from the earth. We have always wanted to leave at least a particle of ourselves, at least a brief mention in a requiem prayer. We want to at least scratch our names on the dungeon wall before we are led out to the execution. . . And take that eternal human fear of remaining childless, left without descendants. Is this not also rooted in a subconscious assurance that children represent a thread stretched forth into the distant reaches of the centuries, toward salvation?"