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comes. They will come all the more the more active and exact the ordinary occupations of his mind may be. Why should the three universes be at all? Why should not all be nothing at all? Have we not a right to presume, is it not a sort of duty to presume, till better advised, that whatever question the human mind can ask the human mind can answer? But does not that come, in the last analysis, to saying that if the whole of the three universes were to die, not merely in their forms, but in their very substance, there would be in that utter death a certainty of new life? Does not a new triad of universes in fact come to