SUMMARY 139 



Ideologically determined in relation to his 

 organic life. It is a mere logical illusion to 

 regard the world we perceive as independent 

 of its relations to us in perception and volition. 

 The visible world around us is a world 

 moulded by our personality, and there is no 

 other world. In scientific work we can 

 abstract from, or disregard, the psychological 

 aspect of things, but in so far as we do so we 

 are dealing with abstractions. The relations 

 of personality, mere organism, and matter are 

 relations of increasing abstraction from reality. 

 Just as the individual organism can only be 

 understood as participating in a wider life, so 

 the individual person exists only in participa 

 ting in a wider personal existence. He can 

 only realise his true personality in losing his 

 personality as a mere individual. Personality 

 is the great central fact of the universe. 

 This world, with all that lies within it, is a 

 spiritual world. 



Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty 

 at the Edinburgh University Press 



