The permanence of the soul can therefore only be proved (and no one cares for that) during the life of man, but not, as we desire to do, after death; and for this general reason, that the concept of substance, so far as it is to be considered necessarily combined with the concept of permanence, can be so combined only according to the principles of possible experience, and therefore for the purposes of experience only.
horixe baita izan ere arazoa. Beraz, arimaren iraupena gizakiaren bizitzan bakarrik froga daiteke (honen froga egindakotzat onartuko zaigu), baina ez hilda gero (hauxe baita guri interesatzen zaiguna), eta hau arrazoi orokor bategatik, alegia, substantziaren kontzeptua, iraupen kontzeptuarekin derrigor lotuta ikusi behar den neurrian, esperientzia posiblearen printzipio baten arabera bakarrik izan daitekeelako, eta beraz horrixe begira bakarrik.