Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


No, God was not responsible. She could have made a better world
herself--a finer, squarer world. This being so, then there was no
God. God could not make a botch. The matron had been wrong, her
mother had been wrong. Then there was no immortality, and Bert,
wild and crazy Bert, falling at her front gate with his foolish
death-cry, was right. One was a long time dead.


Looking thus at life, shorn of its superrational sanctions, Saxon
floundered into the morass of pessimism. There was no
justification for right conduct in the universe, no square
deal for her who had earned reward, for the millions who worked
like animals, died like animals, and were a long time and forever
dead. Like the hosts of more learned thinkers before her, she
concluded that the universe was unmoral and without concern for
men.

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