W. When thou wilt receive the experience of thy friends, thou wilt not have thy own experience. Beside, thou knowest that the experience of thy friends differs. How canst thou decide the difference without thy own experience? When I was in the body, I had not experience in music. Wouldst thou have considered me a competent judge of that which I knew nothing about, by my own experience? M. I would not receive a wrong to add to my experience. W. When thou condemnest what thou dost not know, art thou justified in thy condemnation? M. Not unless it be just. W. How wilt thou decide what is just without knowledge? M. How can I decide any thing? W. By your knowledge of right and wrong. M. Well, my knowledge decides that mind should be consistent with itself. W. Is that agreeably to thy experience? M. It is. W. Then thy consistency is inconsistency. M. How so? W. Thou hast done wrong in thy life? M. Yea. W. Then consistency will not change thy wrong. Consistency is agreement; and when thou sayest, I have done wrong, it is inconsistent with wrong to do right. Consistency is to do wrong, because wrong has been done. Wouldst thou recommend consistency with wrong? M. Nay; but I do not like inconsistency. W. Inconsistency with what? M. I do not like a mind that is constantly changing. I know not where to find a mind that is blown about by every wind that blows. W. The wind bloweth where it listeth; thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst thou tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth? M. I see not whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. W. Suppose thou art informed that it cometh from the east, when it cometh from the west, would thy information be consistent with thy experience? M. Nay. W. When thou asketh me what my mother told me, what was thy object? M. Thy mother told thee what was not wrong. W. Verily, it was not wrong to her understanding. But my mother will not say, it is right for her, or me, to refuse to sing, now we have experienced the satisfaction it adds to our minds. M. Then, thou hast changed thy mind? W. No; _I_ have not changed my mind, but my _experience_ has changed it. The music which I hear, is a song that I love, and what I love, thou wouldst not refuse, when no mind would be injured by it. M. But suppose all were to change their minds, and do as thou hast done, what would the world come to? W. It would come to a wisdom, which thou deniest thyself. It would come to a freedom, which would destroy this castle. It would come to a joy, which would destroy the wretchedness of thy condition. M. My condition wretched! W. Thy condition is wretched. M. How knowest thou that my condition is wretched? W. By my experience. M. Wast thou ever within these walls? W. Truly. M. When?