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circle of organised human knowledge. That time is not yet; 

 but I may venture to hope that the assignment of a proper 

 place to Personality in the structural Evolution of the uni- 

 verse, such as has been attempted in this study, will help 

 to direct attention to what is undoubtedly one of the greatest 

 and most important outstanding problems of knowledge. 



Professor Ward has suggested that that branch of psycho- 

 logy which deals with concrete individuals, with individuals 

 as persons endowed with character, should be called 

 *'Characterology." ^ I am not clear that Characterology 

 I in this sense would be the same as the Science of Personality 

 I which I am discussing. The term ''character" seems to me 

 f narrower than Personality, and to refer to the external 

 indicia rather than the inward reality which the term Per- 

 sonality here points to. And in any case Characterology 

 does not seem suitable as a name for the Science of Person- 

 ality. For these and other reasons, and if a name is really 

 necessary, I would suggest Personology as the name for the 

 Science of Personality, which will not be a mere subdivision 

 of psychology but an independent science or discipline of 

 its own, with its roots not only in psychology but also in all 

 the sciences which deal with the human mind and the human 

 body. As I have just pointed out, it is a border subject be- 

 tween the provinces of Science and Philosophy and will show 

 the influence of both these great subdivisions of knowledge. 

 Prima facie Personology seems a more suitable name for 

 the science or doctrine of Personality than the cacophonous 

 mouthful "Characterology." But it may be objected that 

 Personology is a Graeco-Latin hybrid and unacceptable as 

 such. It may, however, be pointed out that there is a 

 peculiar reason for a term which is not purely Greek but calls 

 in the resources of the Latin language also. For it is a 

 curious fact that Greek philosophy, in spite of its brilliant 

 U achievements and its inspired mintage of most of the current 

 coin of philosophy, never rose to a clear grasp of the idea of 

 Personality. Thus it is that there is no term in Greek to 

 express the notion of Personality. Persona is a Latin term 



* Psychological Principles, p. 431. 



