"Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes." TALBOYS. For indeed at the next step beyond lies only the mystery of Omnipotence--that mystery which connects the world, open and known to us, to the world withheld and unknown. NORTH. The same with regard to Pleasure and Pain. _What_ enjoys Pleasure or suffers Pain?--all that is, to our clearest, sharpest-sighted science, nothing else but darkness--but black unfathomable night. Therefore, since we know not what Death itself is--and since we know not what this Living Mind is, nor what any of its powers and capacities are--what conclusion, taken in the nature of these unknown subjects, can we possibly be warranted in drawing as to the influence which this unknown change, Death, will exert upon this unknown Being--Mind--and upon its unknown faculties and sensibilities?--None. SEWARD. Shall unknown Death destroy this unknown Mind and its unknown capacities? It is just as likely, for anything that Reason can see, that it will set them free to a larger and more powerful existence. And if we have any reason upon other grounds to expect this--then by so much the more likely. NORTH. We know that this Eye and its apparatus of nerves no longer shall serve for _seeing_--we know that these muscles and their nerves shall no longer serve for _moving_--we know that this marvellous Brain itself no longer shall serve, as we are led to believe that it now serves, for _thinking_--we know that this bounding heart never again shall throb and quicken, with all its leaping pulses, with joy--that pain of this body shall never again _tire_ the mind, and that pain of this mind shall never again _tire_ this body, once pillowed and covered up in its bed of imperturbable slumber. And there ends our knowledge. But that this Mind, which, united to these muscles and their nerves, sent out vigorous and swift motions through them--which, united to this Brain, compelled this Brain to serve it as the minister of its thinkings upon this Earth and in this mode of its Being--which, united to this Frame, in it, and through it, and from it, felt for Happiness and for Misery--that this Mind, once _disunited_ from all these, its instruments and servants, shall therefore perish, or shall therefore forego the endowment of its powers, which it manifested by these its instruments--of that we have no warranty--of that there is no probability. TALBOYS.