He replied, "We reap as we have sown. Men bear with them from this world into the intermediate state their habits of mind and stores of knowledge, their dispositions and affections and desires; and these become a part of our punishment, or of our reward, according to their kind. Those persons, therefore, in whom the virtue of patriotism has predominated continue to regard with interest their native land, unless it be so utterly sunk in degradation that the moral relationship between them is dissolved. Epaminondas can have no sympathy at this time with Thebes, nor Cicero with Rome, nor Belisarius with the imperial city of the East. But the worthies of England retain their affection for their noble country, behold its advancement with joy, and when serious danger appears to threaten the goodly structure of its institutions they feel as much anxiety as is compatible with their state of beatitude." _Montesinos_.--What, then, may doubt and anxiety consist with the happiness of heaven? _Sir Thomas More_.--Heaven and hell may be said to begin on your side the grave. In the intermediate state conscience anticipates with unerring certainty the result of judgment. We, therefore, who have done well can have no fear for ourselves. But inasmuch as the world has any hold upon our affections we are liable to that anxiety which is inseparable from terrestrial hopes. And as parents who are in bliss regard still with parental love the children whom they have left on earth, we, in like manner, though with a feeling different in kind and inferior in degree, look with apprehension upon the perils of our country. "_sub pectore forti_ _Vivit adhuc patriae pietas_; _stimulatque sepultum_ _Libertatis amor_: _pondus mortale necari_ _Si potuit_, _veteres animo post funera vires_ _Mansere_, _et prisci vivit non immemor aevi_." They are the words of old Mantuan. _Montesinos_.--I am to understand, then, that you cannot see into the ways of futurity?