I might say more.
These four are so likely to go together that the appearance of one
gives confidence of the rest. If, for example, we discover a being
sacrificing itself for another, even though we have not previously
thought of it as a person, it will so stir sympathy that we shall see
in it a likeness to our own kind. Or, finding a creature capable of
steering itself, of deciding what its ends shall be, and adjusting its
many powers to reach them, we cannot help feeling that there is much
in such a being like ourselves, and we are consequently indisposed to
refer its movements to mechanic adjustment.
If, then, these are the four conditions of personality, the
distinctive functions by which it becomes organically good, they will
evidently need to be examined somewhat minutely before we can rightly
comprehend the nature of personal goodness, and detect its separation
from goodness in general. Such an examination will occupy this and the
three succeeding chapters. But I shall devote myself exclusively to
such features of the four functions as connect them with ethics. Many
interesting metaphysical and psychological questions connected with
them I pass by.
II
There is no need of elaborating the assertion that a person is a
conscious being. To this all will at once agree.
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