Dawn of life. Goreli M.

The main character throws his clinical practice in order to carry out on himself and his loved ones with the help of the apparatus invented by him a grandiose experiment to “enter” one consciousness into another. Starships are obsessed with the idea of ​​catching an elusive substance called "soul" and master it. The professor is reincarnated first into the dog, then into a woman and. It is disappointed as a result to such an extent that it goes to the crime.

in 1904, in the impenetrable forests of Sumatra, Lady Lilian, the daughter of the Dutch millionaire Van Daiden, mysteriously disappears. The desperate searches undertaken by her father do not give any results. Ten years later, the Scotland-Yard Stefen Wallace, with the firm intention of clarifying the secret of the disappearance of Lady Lilian, comes to the island. In the novel, two figures appear as central faces: a young girl and already beginning to grow old as a scientist. Both that and the other passionately want to make humanity such a sacrifice that would improve this humanity, would make it free and socially strong. And both of them are failing, because both approach the resolution of the problem incorrectly.

The girl is a product of the bourgeois class, and the sacrifice of humanity brought to humanity is monstrous in its plan and is tragic with its aimlessness. The scientist is happier in this regard. His victim - the fruit of his long scientific activity - is in the end also aimless, but his advantage is that he is aware of his mistakes in time and, if not loudly, then in his soul he is already recognized in them. And this advantage of it follows from the simple circumstance that it is... Russian.