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higher and supreme conformity of the will, in loyalty to the good, the 
beautiful and the true—that ultimate kinglom which is the home and 
the aspiration of man. If we should find this hypothesis justified, we 
might call these sensibilities the rectoral sensibilities. 
On this general conception of the significance of mind, the classifica¬ 
tion of the sensibilities may be easily completed. The function of 
moral citizenship under law having to be performed in relations suitable 
to the common weal, the environment which they furnish may be ex¬ 
pected to be—we should suppose must be—nay, are manifested as be¬ 
ing, by whatever law of the survival of the fittest or any other, brought 
to bear on the personality for adjustment by corresponding forms of 
feeling. The race, the nation, the family, have their correlated sensibili¬ 
ties, which promote the integrity and permanent maintenance of these 
relations. These we may call the relational sensibilities. 
The individual personality, however, could not be expected to be left 
without provision in corresponding sensibilities which should guarantee 
its support. Man is a dual oiganism in which, whatever explanation we 
may make of it, is the antithesis of mind and body. Mind and body 
must be brought into touch, for their support, with the will by forms of 
sensibility which present their needs to this central personality. There 
must be the mental and the corporeal appetites, and thus we have a 
third class of sensibilities which we may well enough call suppeditary sen¬ 
sibilities. Without going into detail and explaining certain forms of 
sensibility which only seem extraordinate to this classification, would it 
not be practicable to substitute for the old classification or for none at 
all, this: The rectoral, the relational, the suppeditary? Certain it is 
that in the study of mind, whatever view we may take of its place 
and relation in the kosmos, we are compelled to account upon mind as 
being a most consummate piece of perfect work. The eye, which detects 
harmony, is a harmony. The mind that responds to summer sunsets is no 
jnmble. The wonders of constructive art in lower organic life are out¬ 
matched in the structure of the personality. If we cannot say with 
Hamilton, in the legend over his teacher’s desk. “There is nothing great 
in the universe but man; there is nothing great in man but mind,” we 
can consent to all that the great dramatic poet has said of him, and we 
can adopt the words of that composite lyric philosopher which sends 
his plummet deeper than Shakespeare’s has gone into wondrous depths 
of personality: “Thou hast made him little lower than the angels.’ 
Surely the study of psychology has yet conquests to make in the dis¬ 
covery of mental order that are beyond the achievements of the micro¬ 
scope and the section knife of the tyro, who has not yet sounded his 
own mind’s depths and the depths of the great heart of the world and 
of history. He only who is, through long listening, a seer, is fitted 
to hear the revelations of this oracle out of the unknown and awful 
Holy of Holies. 
