PERSONALITY 



applied to them because it cannot describe 

 them. 



The man as a person is more than the 

 man as an organism ; but we must not make 

 the mistake of supposing that he is anything 

 different from his organism perceived and 

 understood more fully. It is absolutely vain 

 to attempt to separate in any other sense the 

 personality of the man from his organic life. 

 His character is, on a lower plane of our 

 perception, organic character ; his passions, 

 on this plane, are mere organic instincts. To 

 separate off the organic instincts as if every 

 thing connected with them were outside the 

 man's real personality is to make the same 

 kind of mistake as is made by the vitalists 

 in physiology. The love between parent 

 and child, or man and woman, may be looked 

 upon, by those who are not attempting to 

 see further into reality, as mere organic 

 instinct ; but in nothing else does personality 

 in its distinctive sense manifest itself more 

 clearly, and through nothing else can charac 

 ter be judged more certainly. The person 

 is the whole man, and the organic aspect 

 of him is only an abstract or partial aspect. 



