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tions all other activities. The Intelligence has been evolved 

 largely though not entirely as an instrument of the will; 

 in its endeavour to realise its conscious or unconscious 

 ends the Personality qua will has developed the intel- 

 lectual or thinking power as a subsidiary activity which 

 prescribes the means by which that realisation has to be 

 effected. The power of Holism in us moves at first un- 

 consciously and blindly, as in other organisms, and later 

 on consciously and purposively to certain ends which in- 

 crease in complexity and difficulty as the capacity for 

 abstract thinking and rational co-ordination progresses. 

 This fundamental movement is the will, whose activity is 

 dependent not only on the primary forms of feeling, which 

 make the movement slow or rapid according to the strength 

 and volume of the feelings, but also on the growth of intelli- 

 gence which adjusts means to ends. The active movement 

 to satisfy the appetite or craving of hunger, for instance, 

 depends largely on the strength of the promptings of hunger; 

 and the intelligence of the hungry animal is developed and 

 sharpened in order to devise ways and means by which the 

 pangs of that craving may be alleviated and removed. And 

 similarly the complex impulse which makes a great thinker, 

 artist or statesman endeavour through long years to execute 

 some great and far-reaching plan, while fundamentally a 

 movement of his active voluntary nature, depends for its 

 strength on his emotions, and for the correctness of execution 

 on the power of thought and judgment and insight which 

 have been matured in the personal life. The conception of 

 Personality, as an active movement of the whole in each 

 individual, seems, therefore, necessarily to lead to the 

 primacy of the will or active nature of the mind, and to 

 the instrumental character of the intellectual or thinking 

 power. Personality is thus a balanced whole or structure 

 of various tendencies and capacities which are maintained 

 in mutual and reciprocal harmony by the holistic nature of 

 the Personality itself. As the whole is the essence of Per- 

 sonality, so wholeness in self-realisation and self-expression 

 is its essential aim and object. 



