I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

我常常想，如果没有孩子，这个世界将多么忧郁;如果没有老人，这个世界将多么不人道。

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治