英国数学家查尔斯·巴贝奇教授是计算机的先驱。一次,他读了邓尼逊的诗《罪的幻影》后,给邓尼逊写了一封建议信。他说:“在你那首很优美的诗里,有一句写道:‘每时每刻都有一个人死去,每时每刻都有一个人诞生。’ The British mathematician Professor Charles Babbage is a pioneer of computers. Once, after reading Denison’s poem ”The Mirage of Sin,“ he wrote a letter of advice to Denison. He said: ”In your very beautiful poem, there was a sentence that read: ‘one person died every moment, one person was born every moment.’