For as far as any intelligent being CAN repeat the idea of any past action with the same consciousness it had of it at first, and with the same consciousness it has of any present action; so far it is the same personal self.
Izan ere, edozein izaki adimendun, iragandako edozein egintzaren ideia lehenengoz hartaz izan zuen kontzientziaz eta edozein egintza presentez duen kontzientziaz errepika dezakeen heinean, neurri horrexetan da norbera pertsona berbera.