Excerpt from Why Does Man Exist?: The Continuation and Conclusion of Whence Comes Man

"Supposing these answers to be accepted, other questions suggest themselves. We want to know why man exists. We want to know why God 'created' him. Did God desire that man should be good? Is there any reason why he should be good? If there be, then why does evil exist? And there arises also the further question - that, supposing there be a good reason why man should be good, is goodness 'possible' to him? If his 'character' be made for him, not by him, how can he be good, if his character, which he did not make himself, be not good? Does his existence terminate at death? Does he come into the world only for the sake of what he therein does - suffers - enjoys? or is his existence continued lifter death? Is that existence, if it be 'continued after death, ' to be desired or to be dreaded? Is the having been born a misfortune or a blessing? What is the character of God? Is He a Being to be feared - to be hated - or to be loved? What are man's relations to his fellow-man? What are man's relations to God-that awful Being whose power over us seems to be absolute? and that last, most terrible of questions, Is man's existence owing to God's malevolence - to His indifference - or to His Love?" - "Whence comes Man?" (last page).

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