90 The Triunity of Personality [CH. 



approaching the isolated functioning of one activity 

 and this, just because the lunatic and the new-born 

 child are not self-conscious unities. 



Really, I must will myself to appreciate scenery. I 

 must relate my past experience in planning the future, 

 calling up mental images. Yet mere cognition has no- 

 thing whatever to do with mere conation, and mere co- 

 nation has nothing to do with mere cognition. They are 

 related only in the unity of myself. And this unity is 

 based on the fact that / recognise, / will, and that I am 

 free to do these things. The free unity of my personality 

 issues in cognition and conation ; but my cognition and 

 my conation equally issue in my free unity. I could not 

 think nor will unless I were one and free, but equally I 

 could not be one and free unless I could think and will. 

 Will, thought and emotion are the boundaries of the 

 triangle which is myself. Without any one of them I 

 could not be myself, I could not be free any more than 

 there could be a triangle with one of its three sides miss- 

 ing. The illustration is spatial and crude, but it may 

 serve to indicate the truth we are labouring. 



Let us turn now from the psychologist to the philoso- 

 pher. For a careful, systematic, and extraordinarily 

 suggestive account of the meaning of personality to the 

 metaphysician the reader is urgently advised to study 

 Wilfrid Richmond's Essay on Personality as a Philo- 

 sophical Principle 1 . We have already had occasion to 

 refer to this work, and shall have occasion again, but 

 no passing reference can convey anything of the valuable 

 material with which a careful reading 2 will stock the 

 mind. 



Briefly, the argument of the book is this. 



1 Again I would refer the reader to Pringle Patrison's Gifford 

 Lectures, although the subject of personality is dealt with there 

 for the most part incidentally, and to Jevons' Personality. 



1 "Careful reading," for the book is not always lucid. 



