72 The Triunity of Man [CH. 



essence of my relationship to other persons is eternal and 

 real. It is this relationship which is involved in the 

 power of manifesting the self to others. The love that 

 creates the environment of others, directing their experi- 

 ence and expanding it, belongs to fatherhood; the shar- 

 ing of experience belongs to sonship and depends on the 

 power of manifesting the personality. 



Thus between myself and others there is an activity 

 which mediates the sharing of experience. 



We have yet to consider that mediation in relation to 

 the self whose activities of love it mediates. 



Man is to himself his own other. This statement may 

 appear strange, artificial, untrue, at first sight, but a 

 little consideration will show that it is none the less fact. 

 We have seen that man can stand outside himself, can 

 think himself, can love himself. He is capable of intro- 

 spection. He can and does think himself as a creative, 

 loving being. In this act of introspection his body, in 

 the sense of his power of self -manifestation, is regarded 

 in its relation to himself, not to others. He manifests 

 himself to himself. The mediatorial function of his 

 'body' discharges itself of its activities towards his 

 own thought, not towards the thought of others. I can 

 think of myself I am I ; I am this, that and the other, 

 which together make up the me-ness of me. Here I 

 mediate myself to myself. I see myself through the 

 medium of pure thought. In fact I think myself. Thus 

 in the unity that I call myself there is I and thou, though 

 I am so certain that I am one that it is difficult for me to 

 concede the fact. Yet the very existence of introspec- 

 tion is proof of its reality. 



We see, then, that though the mediating function of 

 the body eventually becomes sublimated from the pure 

 time-process of a linking of will and ends, becoming the 



argument is summarised as far as it relates to this particular 

 point. 



