But that I do now before Death exist, endued with certain powers and capacities, affords a presumptive or primâ facie probability that I shall after death continue to exist, possessing these powers and capacities—
BULLER.
How is that, sir?
NORTH.
You do well to put that question, my dear Buller—a primâ facie probability, unless there be some positive reason to think that death is the "destruction" of Me, the living Being, and of these my living Faculties.
BULLER.
A presumptive or primâ facie probability, sir? Why does Butler say so?
NORTH.
"Because there is in every case a probability that all things will continue as we experience they are, in all respects, except those in which we have some reason to think they will be altered."
BULLER.