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becomes the last term in the holistic series, a reality in line 

 with the other realities which mark the creative forward 

 march of Holism. 



Personality has thus been explained above as personal 

 Holism, as the whole in its human fullness of development. 

 Human personal development thus means the creative 

 synthetic whole in control of all special functions and 

 activities, of all organs and their functions. The activities 

 of the body and the mind do not embrace the whole of 

 personal development. There is more in the central s)ai- 

 thetic Personality than an analysis of psychological and 

 physiological functions can explain. Just as in the special- 

 ised organs of sense, the underlying basis of sensitivity, the 

 original sensus communis j develops pari passu with the spe- 

 cial senses and co-ordinates and supplements their activities 

 in the sensuous wholes of intuition, so also the central holistic 

 / Personality develops pari passu with all the specialised men- 

 I tal and bodily functions, and produces out of their de- 

 liverances those syntheses and unities which are distinctive 

 of personal experience. All experience, all intuitions, judg- 

 ments, actions, beliefs and other mental acts are holistic 

 products of Personality. There is no internal chemistry 

 which binds these products together into unities other than 

 Personality itself. In Personality, even more than in the 

 earlier structures of Evolution, the whole is in charge, and 

 all development and activity can be properly understood 

 only when viewed as being of a holistic character, instead 

 of being the separate activities of special organs, or the 

 separate products of special mental functions. Synthesis 

 and unity are of the whole, and not of the parts. Holism 

 is in all personal activity, and is the only basis on which such 

 activity can be properly understood. 



What should be the procedure of the new discipline of 

 Personology? It should, of course, take cognisance of the 

 special analytical contributions of psychology and physiol- 

 ogy, and of all the other human sciences, individual and 

 social, theoretical and practical. But it should do more. 

 Following the course above indicated, that the Personality 



