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consists of eighteen chapters, the first four of which are 

 devoted to a general analysis and description of mental 

 functions, while the main body of the work, consisting of 

 twelve chapters, contains a detailed discussion of the various 

 forms of mental activity, such as sensation, perception, 

 imagination, memory, feeling, emotion, and action, intellec- 

 tion, forms of synthesis in the judgment, intuition, and the 

 categories, belief, and the elements of conduct. The last 

 two chapters only are devoted to the concrete individual 

 and characterology, and form merely a distant approach to 

 the subject of Personality. No one will deny that from a 

 purely psychological point of view the method and procedure 

 of Professor Ward are both proper and unexceptionable. 

 But the necessarily analytical character of psychology 

 largely disqualifies it from being a real foundation for a 

 doctrine of Personality. Psychology has, in fact, a different 

 scope and aim from that which would be natural and proper 

 for a subject like Personality. It is but one of several 

 preparatory studies leading up to the subject of Personality 

 without actually grappling with it. 



The result has been that from a psychological or any other 

 practical point of view very little attention has been devoted 

 to the study of Personality. Personality has been the 

 concern of no particular branch of study, and it still awaits 

 a proper treatment of its own as a distinct discipline among 

 other scientific and philosophical disciplines. Its province 

 falls within the large debatable territory between science 

 and philosophy, between theory and practice, which has 

 been very little explored and is still terra incognita to all 

 intents and purposes. Its difficulties are immense; from 

 that wide and wild No Man's Land between science and 

 philosophy it rises like some forbidding mountain peak into 

 the heavens; and no daring mountaineer has yet ventured 

 to approach it, let alone to scale its dizzy heights. But 

 beyond a doubt it is going to occupy a foremost place in 

 the attention of inquirers in future. And the time may 

 come when the science of Personality may be the very 

 keystone of the arch, and serve to complete the full growing 



