alluringly clear those horizons which opened out before me might
be, however alluring it might be to immerse oneself in the
limitless expanse of those sciences, I already understood that the
clearer they were the less they met my need and the less they
"I know," said I to myself, "what science so persistently
tries to discover, and along that road there is no reply to the
question as to the meaning of my life." In the abstract sphere I
understood that notwithstanding the fact, or just because of the