2. Knowledge through conviction loses force when there is disagreement.
3. Knowledge through analogy is like circumstantial evidence.
b. We know:
1. That matter and force do not die.
α. We know of nothing that is positively mortal.
2. That life works in a certain direction.
3. That death and re-birth are the means of moving in that direction, i.e., of progress.
4. That this progress is of the spirit or self.
5. That we are forever a part of the world, related to the whole.
6. As we know nothing but consciousness or self, we believe it must be immortal, though we have no proof.