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nion, which are really known to us only through our 

 knowledge of personality, the only whole which can be 

 found is a Personal God. Only in the knowledge of a 

 personal God can intellect, will and emotion all and 

 alike find satisfaction. 



Thirdly, when we study. Emotion, we find that it 

 emerges from feeling unlike intellect, which emerges 

 from perception but as it expands, growing from the 

 self-centred emotion of pleasure through the disinter- 

 ested emotion of beauty, to the emotion of love, which 

 is at the same time directed towards the self, and to- 

 wards others, transcending all selfishness in pure reci- 

 procity, we find it fulfilling itself in religion, in which 

 will and intellect and emotion achieve complete fulfil- 

 ment. It is the great unifying principle that completes 

 the freedom of man. In this notion of the communion 

 of love we find an ideal of reality that comprehends all 

 that is and all that could be an ultimate Reality 

 which has nothing beyond itself, since it includes every- 

 thing in the perfect satisfaction of all personal existence. 



Now for our present purposes the most suggestive 

 fact of Mr Richmond's analysis and we need not 

 necessarily agree with him in every detail is this: 

 you may, and must, subdivide the activities of the per- 

 sonality into will, intellect, and emotion, but the very 

 subdivision defeats itself, for you find that in every 

 activity of the will intellect and emotion have their part ; 

 in every activity of the intellect, will and emotion; and 

 in every activity of emotion, will and intellect. The 

 three are inseparable parts of one whole, and have no 

 true independence in a personal being or isolated self- 

 existence. 



Now when we find that the psychologist from his 

 limited and purely descriptive standpoint in just the 

 same way is bound to subdivide the activities of the 

 mind into three, cognition, affection and conation, we 



