" My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the word " progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by questions of how to live better. I still had not understood that in answering that one must live according to progress, I was talking just like a person being carried along in a boat by the waves and the wind; without really answering, such a person replies to the only important question-" Where are we to steer?" -by saying, " We are being carried somewhere. "