What he shows through his Schoolmaster is that a rational and secular value system of the kind proposed by Monod is delusion that may crumble as soon as it is subjected to stress.

• 他通过笔下的那位校长告诉我们，莫诺所倡导的那种理性的、世俗的价值体系，只不过是一场幻觉，一旦遇到压力便会破灭，化为乌有。