Yet as before in
the case of John, each of Peter's powers works forward, backward, and
across, constructing in Peter an organic whole which still is
interlocked with the life of John. Each, while having functions of his
own, has also functions which are shared with his neighbor.
Nor would this involvement of functions pause with Peter. To make our
diagram really representative, each of the two individuals thus far
drawn would need to be surrounded by a multitude of others, all
sharing in some degree the functions of their neighbors. Or rather
each individual, once connected with his neighbors, would find all his
functions affected by all those possessed by his entire group. For
fear of making my figure unintelligible
[Fig 5.]
through its fullness of relations, I have sent out arrows in all
directions from the letter A only; but in reality they would run from
all to all. And I have also thought that we persons affect one another
quite as decidedly through the wholeness of our characters as we do
through any interlocking of single traits. Such totality of
relationship I have tried to suggest by connecting the centres of each
little square with the centres of adjacent ones. John as a whole is
thus shown to be good for Peter as a whole.
We have successively found ourselves obliged to broaden our conception
until the goodness of a single object has come to imply that of a
group.
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