If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence?

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence?" in the context of "Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the Sufferings of the World," from The Essays of Schopenhauer selected and translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Studies_in_Pessimism/On_the_Sufferings_of_the_World" to mean that wisdom is timeless.