"Religion."
"Pardon me, but I do not."
"Well, theology, anyway."
"Ah, that is a different matter."
"You call yourself an agnostic."
"No, I don't. 'Agnostic' is too long and too pretentious a word. I prefer to translate it and call myself a know-nothing."
"Don't you believe in God and a future life—and—and all that sort of thing?" Brady ended rather disjointedly.
"Don't you believe Mars is inhabited? and that the lines on its surface are canals for irrigation?"
"I don't know," answered Brady, whose mental processes were simple.