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three modes we do exist for ourselves, and in them our 

 relations to the cosmos are comprised. I know myself 

 as creator, in pure thought, and to others I am mani- 

 fested as the cause of part of their environment and 

 as mediating ray own volitions in regard to them. I 

 know myself as a unity, free to create and to mediate; 

 and others know my influence on their environment, 

 created by me through the mediation of my thought 

 and my modes of contact with that environment, as the 

 expression of my free decision as one being. That is to 

 say, both for myself and for others my hypostases are 

 three, yet I am one. The science of psychology recog- 

 nises these three in some sort as conation the creative 

 striving; as cognition the mediatorial function; and 

 as affection the feeling which links the cognitive and 

 conative functions and completes my power of affecting 

 the sphere which I indwell, through their free use by 

 myself as a purposive being. The order of these for the 

 psychologist is of course cognition the incoming per- 

 ception; affection the internal emotion; and conation 

 the striving, or outgoing effect, whether an effect on 

 the self or on an other, which represents the function of 

 the will in creation. Our next task, then, is to analyse 

 the concept of human personality, in order to see more 

 clearly that the three realities of my personal being are 

 not merely aspects, but hypostases. 



