I have, and I have not. A few minutes ago I was expounding--in my own words--and for the reason assigned, will continue to do so--his argument. If, not knowing what death is, we are not entitled to argue, from the nature of death, that this change must put an end to Ourselves, and those essential powers in our mind which we are conscious of exerting--just as little can we argue from the nature of these powers, and from their manner of subsisting in us, that they are liable to be affected and impaired, or destroyed by death. For what do we know of these powers, and of the conditions on which we hold them, and of the mind in which they dwell? Just as much as we do of the great change, Death itself--that is to say--NOTHING. TALBOYS. We know the powers of our mind solely by their manifestations. NORTH. But people in general do not think so--and many metaphysicians have written as if they had forgot that it is only from the manifestation that we give name to the Power. We know the fact of Seeing, Hearing, Remembering, Reasoning--the feeling of Beauty--the actual pleasure of Moral Approbation, the pain of Moral Disapprobation--the state--pleasure or pain of loving--the state--pleasure or pain of hating--the fire of anger--the frost of fear--the curiosity to know--the thirst for distinction--the exultation of conscious Power--all these, and a thousand more, we know abundantly: our conscious Life is nothing else but such knowledge endlessly diversified. But the POWERS themselves, which are thus exerted--what _they_ are--_how_ they subsist in us ready for exertion--of this we know--NOTHING. TALBOYS.