108 PERSONALITY 



other, as we saw in the previous lecture, that 

 wofld of copsciousness is the world of supreme 

 existence : for the elements in that world all 

 that we perceive exist only in their relations 

 to one another as parts of one supreme whole. 



At first sight this conclusion seems, perhaps, 

 to have led us into the impossible position of 

 an absolute idealism which is at the same 

 time subjective idealism the position that 

 somehow the existence of the universe is 

 bound up with the individual existence of 

 a certain person, who was born, and will 

 assuredly die, on certain dates. Such an in 

 terpretation is incorrect, as will be shown 

 presently ; but meanwhile let us follow out 

 our analysis. 



As Kant and his successors showed, the 

 world as perceived is a world of elements 

 which are not self- existent but exist only as 

 related to one another related temporally 

 and spatially, as substance and accident, 

 matter and energy, or as expressions of 

 organic unity. If we look further at this 

 world of perception we find that it is appar 

 ently centred in ourselves in our own in 

 dividual organism. It has a particular here 



