He said:-
"The unborn have knowledge of one another so long as they are unborn,
and this without impediment from walls or material obstacles. The
unborn children in any city form a population apart, who talk with one
another and tell each other about their developmental progress.
"They have no knowledge, and cannot even conceive the existence of
anything that is not such as they are themselves. Those who have been
born are to them what the dead are to us. They can see no life in
them, and know no more about them than they do of any stage in their
own past development other than the one through which they are passing
at the moment. They do not even know that their mothers are
alive--much less that their mothers were once as they now are. To an
embryo, its mother is simply the environment, and is looked upon much
as our inorganic surroundings are by ourselves.
"The great terror of their lives is the fear of birth,--that they
shall have to leave the only thing that they can think of as life, and
enter upon a dark unknown which is to them tantamount to annihilation.
"Some, indeed, among them have maintained that birth is not the death
which they commonly deem it, but that there is a life beyond the womb
of which they as yet know nothing, and which is a million fold more
truly life than anything they have yet been able even to imagine.
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