"Within the infinity of time, within the infinity of matter, within the infinity of space, stands out a bubble, an organism, and this bubble survives for a while and then bursts, and this bubble is me". This was a tormenting falsehood, but it was the unique, final conclusion of centuries of human thought in this direction. It was the ultimate aspiration, upon which almost all branches, all quests of human thought were based. It was the prevailing opinion, and Levin, seeing it as the clearest of all explanations, embraced it without knowing when or how."