"Yes, but you deny the validity of the distinction between Good and Bad, so it's absurd for you to talk about a good impulse."
"What is your position, Ellis?" asked Parry. "I've been trying in vain to make head or tail of it"
"Why should I take a position at all?" rejoined Ellis "I protest against this bullying."
"But you must take a position," cried Leslie, "if we are to discuss."
"I don't see why; you might take one instead."
"Yes, but you began."
"Well," he conceded, "anything to oblige you. My position, then, to go back again to the beginning, is this. Seeing that there are so many different opinions about what things are good, and that no criterion has been discovered for testing these opinions——"
"My dear Ellis," interrupted Parry, "I protest against all that from the very beginning. For all practical purposes there is a substantial agreement about what is good."
"My dear Parry," retorted Ellis, "if I am to state a position, let me state it without interruption. Considering, as I was saying, that there are so many different opinions about what things are good, and that no criterion has been discovered for testing them, I hold that we have no reason to attach any validity to these opinions, or to suppose that it is possible to have any true opinions on the subject at all."
"And what do you say to that?" asked Parry, turning to me.