648 THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF INDIVIDUALITY 



development and expression and that the nervous system acts as the agent and 

 representative of the outer world within us it can be readily understood that 

 there is an intimate connection between the psychical individuality and the 

 outer world. 



It is these relations between the individuality and the surrounding world as 

 well as the relations which exist between individuality in the physical and 

 physiological sense (body) and in the psychical sense (soul) which have been 

 the main problems with which philosophy has dealt throughout its history. 

 Therefore essentially the problems of philosophy have been largely concerned 

 with the meaning of individuality. 



