What Are We To Do With Our Lives? by H.G. Wells

-"Yes," objects a reader, "but does not our religion tell us what we are to do with our lives?"

We have to bring religion, as a fundamental matter, into this discussion. From our present point of view, religion is that central essential part of education which determines conduct. Religion certainly should tell us what to do with our lives. But in the vast stir and occasions of modern life, so much of what we call religion remains irrelevant or dumb. Religion does not seem to "join on" to the main parts of the general problem of living. It has lost touch.