in] The Triunity of Personality 9 1 



Starting with the premiss that we know personality 

 by experience, and indeed, that it is the preeminent fact 

 of experience, the author goes on to show that person- 

 ality has the dramatic meaning of self-manifestation, 

 the legal meaning of membership of a society of persons, 

 and the theological meaning of capacity for communion 

 in the absolute reality of the Eternal Being; while in 

 modern parlance it is simply accented individuality, but 

 always in relation to a society. Mr Richmond himself 

 defines personality as "the capacity of society, fellow- 

 ship, communion," the Swapis of icoivtavut, combining 

 the suggestions of earlier definitions. He shows that the 

 idea of personality as a limitation is entirely contrary 

 to experience; all personality is intensified in the collec- 

 tive association after which it strives, whether we con- 

 sider the region of desire and will, of intellect, or of 

 emotion. This third chapter is perhaps the most im- 

 portant in the book, and should be carefully studied. 

 After a brief examination of the relation of mere feeling 

 to self-consciousness, he proceeds to analyse the pheno- 

 mena of will, of intellect, and of emotion, as represent- 

 ing the three chief aspects and functions of personality. 

 Now it is particularly interesting to notice that he sub- 

 divides each of these, and considers them under three 

 heads. 



Will is examined in regard to its motive, its mediation 

 in motives, and its ultimate principle as an impulse to- 

 wards communion. In motives it is clear that intellec- 

 tual consciousness of purpose, and an emotional content, 

 are involved, whether the motive be personal or social. 

 Moreover there is mediation in motives, for whether in 

 duty, desire, or affection, the immediate motive is con- 

 sidered mediately in its relation to general principles. 

 And the ultimate principle has always relation to com- 

 munion between the self and the world, whether the 

 immediate motive be desire, duty or affection. More- 



