with that; but as soon as the question of life presented itself

clearly to me, those theories immediately crumbled away. Not to

speak of the unscrupulous obscurity with which those sciences

announce conclusions formed on the study of a small part of mankind

as general conclusions; not to speak of the mutual contradictions

of different adherents of this view as to what are the ideals of

humanity; the strangeness, not to say stupidity, of the theory

consists in the fact that in order to reply to the question facing