The Kosekin may thus have had a spiritual development of their own, which ended in this.
"Yet there may be another reason for it, and I sometimes think that the Kosekin may be nearer to the truth than we are.

We have by nature a strong love of life--it is our dominant feeling--but yet there is in the minds of all men a deep underlying conviction of the vanity of life, and the worthlessness.

In all ages and among all races the best, the purest, and the wisest have taught this truth--that human life is not a blessing; that the evil predominates over the good; and that our best hope is to gain a spirit of acquiescence with its inevitable ills.

All philosophy and all religions teach us this one solemn truth, that in this life the evil surpasses the good.

It has always been so.
Suffering has been the lot of all living things, from the giant of the primeval swamps down to the smallest zoophyte.