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external to mainly internal determination of the path 

 to be followed ; emotion replacing appetition ; these are 

 the signs by which we may recognise the initiation of 

 personality. 



With these the system grows more open, including a 

 larger range. Each closed system among men tends to 

 expand first the family, then the tribe, then the nation, 

 then the universal brotherhood, last of all the true 

 fellowship of eternal selves perfected, and linked with 

 God and with each other in perfect mutuality. The 

 limitations of external circumstance are replaced by 

 self -limitation ; freedom is found in self-determination. 

 Men find their life in losing it. Their true self wins to its 

 own in the self-abnegation of perfect fellowship. 



We have argued that the basis of evolution of per- 

 sonality lies in the self-control that comes with the 

 freedom of the true alternative, with judgments of 

 value and the emotions that accompany them. The 

 aspect of this which is concerned with transcendence we 

 will leave to the next, and final, chapter. 



