John.
That may be. But if there is it’s infamous.
Vicar.
What have you got to put in the place of religion? What answer can you give to the riddle of the universe?
John.
I may think your answer wrong and yet have no better one to put in its place.
Vicar.
Have you nothing to tell us at all when we ask you why man is here and what is his destiny? You are like a rudderless ship in a stormy sea.
John.
I suppose the human race has arisen under the influence of conditions which are part of the earth’s history, and under the influence of other conditions it will come to an end. I don’t see that there is any more meaning in life than in the statement that two and two are four.