I have come to tell you that we are inseparable forever, you and I, one double speck of spinal marrow--'Philipschen!'--one little grain of salt, one drop. There is to be no parting for _us_--I can see that; but such extraordinary luck seems reserved for you and me alone up to now; and it is all our own doing. But not till you join me shall you and I be complete, and free to melt away in that universal ocean, and take our part, as One, in all is to be. That moment--you must not hasten it by a moment. Time is nothing. I'm even beginning to believe there's no such thing; there is so little difference, _la-bas_, between a year and a day. And as for space--dear me, an inch is as as an ell! Things cannot be measured like that. A midge's life is as long as a man's, for it has time to learn its business, and do all the harm it can, and fight, and make love, and marry, and reproduce its kind, and grow disenchanted and bored and sick and content to die--all in a summer afternoon. An average man can live to seventy years without doing much more. And then there are tall midges, and clever and good-looking ones, and midges of great personal strength and cunning, who can fly a little faster and a little farther than the rest, and live an hour longer to drink a whole drop more of some other creature's blood; but it does not make a very great difference! * * * * * No, time and space mean just the same as 'nothing.' But for you they mean much, as you have much to do. Our joint life must be revealed--that long, sweet life of make-believe, that has been so much more real than reality. Ah! where and what were time or space to us then? * * * * * And you must tell all we have found out, and how; the way must be shown to others with better brains and better training than _we_ had. The value to mankind--to mankind here and hereafter--may be incalculable. * * * * * For some day, when all is found out that can be found out on earth, and made the common property of all (or even before that), the great man will perhaps arise and make the great guess that is to set us all free, here and hereafter. Who knows?