ioo The Triitnity of Personality [CH. 



being by the knowledge of complete freedom, and in 

 love we find satisfaction of the sense of beauty also, for 

 there is harmony of relationship. In theory, emotion 

 qua emotion is uncaused, determining causal activity ; in 

 fact it is both centripetal and centrifugal. Centripetal, 

 in that it is roused, in limited beings, by external stimuli, 

 which seem to be themselves the causes of it, simply be- 

 cause we live in determined conditions in which our 

 emotions are not free, and tend to search for causes in- 

 stead of inhibitions we are so accustomed to the rela- 

 tion of cause and effect as essential correlatives when 

 physical determination is in question, that we mista- 

 kenly carry over the same reasoning from one level of 

 experience to another centrifugal, in that all emotions 

 are creative manifestations of our real self to ourselves 

 and to others. 



Emotion is the originative force that urges to self- 

 understanding and self -revelation. 



This idea of the uncausedness of pure emotion is 

 difficult, and one's first impulse is to deny it; especially 

 if, like my freest and most constant critic, one has had 

 a psychological training. We will therefore consider it 

 more at length. 



Will, intellect, and emotion all emerge from the 

 primitive complex of pure sensation. Pure sensation 

 or feeling is, so to speak, the lower layer which underlies 

 consciousness. Out of consciousness arises conscious- 

 ness of objects, and then consciousness of subject. Con- 

 sciousness of objects is perception, consciousness of 

 subject in relation to objects is true self-consciousness. 

 Feeling can now be analysed in relation to the self; 

 that which determines its creative aspect recognised as 

 an emotion. Emotions themselves are of very different 

 grades. The lowest no doubt are those associated with 

 fear and pain. But in every emotion, even these, the 

 realisation of the freedom of the self to act forms a part 



