they readily showed me all their knowledge, not only in books but

also in conversation, so that I had at my disposal all that science

has to say on this question of life.

I was long unable to believe that it gives no other reply to

life's questions than that which it actually does give. It long

seemed to me, when I saw the important and serious air with which

science announces its conclusions which have nothing in common with

the real questions of human life, that there was something I had