He seemed in that moment to feel a hideous meaninglessness in this tidal wave of life travelling through the ages.
That thought which had come to him a short time before about the meaninglessness of life, and of the perpetual mating that carried it on, now recurred to him again; but this time he had an accompanying sense of its utter falsity.
It was void, with a meaninglessness that was almost dreadful.
It was a terrible face, void, peaked, abstracted almost intomeaninglessness by the weight of sensation beneath.
But with a view to the efforts made (the Lord makes the soul act) on account of the (thus resulting) non-meaninglessness of injunctions and prohibitions and the rest.
But this view implies the meaninglessness of all scriptural injunctions and prohibitions!