7 “As one generation dies and gives way to another, the heir of the
consequences of all its virtues and all its vices, the exact result
of preëxistent causes, so each individual, in the long chain of
life, inherits all, of good or evil, which all its predecessors have
done or been, and takes up the struggle towards enlightenment
precisely where they left it.” Rhys Davids, _Buddhism_, p. 104.