When they resumed the pursuit they found another new trail merging into that of the main force.

He perceived now clearly that it was this forced contribution that he hated-this merging of the individual in the body, and the body one of principles that were at once precise and immutable.

If you imagine that this entrance after the death of the body into a common life of higher type means a merging and loss of our distinct personality, Fechner asks you whether a visual sensation of our own exists in any sense less for itself or less distinctly, when it enters into our higher relational consciousness and is there distinguished and defined.