128 PERSONALITY 



wider personal life he realises his true per 

 sonality. 



This is a hard saying : for it represents 

 a truth in the form which is hardest of all 

 to grasp clearly, firmly, and at all times. 

 Certainly no man succeeds in so grasping it. 

 Reality is always presenting itself to us in 

 ever-changing kaleidoscopic forms, in the 

 confusion of which we cannot see clearly or 

 act consistently. In these lectures I have 

 attempted, following in the lines of some of 

 the great leaders of human thought, to trace 

 some of the main logical confusions, and to 

 point out where and how they confuse us. 

 In ordinary life we have usually to shut our 

 eyes to these confusions, since we cannot at 

 once see through them. The great practical 

 leaders of humanity have usually ignored the 

 confusion, and boldly proclaimed that their 

 own picture is the true one, and the rest mere 

 illusion. It is harder to see that the true 

 picture is everywhere if we look close enough, 

 but in an ever-developing form. 



The astronomer or the physicist seems, at 

 first sight, to be presenting to us a gigantic 

 and absolutely inhuman universe, in which 



