makes life possible. Reasonable knowledge had brought me to

acknowledge that life is senseless -- my life had come to a halt

and I wished to destroy myself. Looking around on the whole of

mankind I saw that people live and declare that they know the

meaning of life. I looked at myself -- I had lived as long as I

knew a meaning of life and had made life possible.

Looking again at people of other lands, at my contemporaries

and at their predecessors, I saw the same thing. Where there is