"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it... Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their wor

"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it... Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?" — Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Creeping Man http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImmortalityImmorality http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImmortalityImmora...