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Excerpt from Man an Organic Community, Vol. 1 of 2: Being an Exposition of the Law That the Human Personality in All Its Phases in Evolution, Both Co-Ordinate and Discordinate, Is the Multiple of Many Sub-Personalities There are some who are unable to associate these diverse forms of expression with an ever singleness of purpose, singleness of conformation in the one human personality, and who conceive that the individual personality in each diverse presentation represents distinct combinations of its many faculties and powers, each group representing the activities of a state, not of a self-contained individual, each part of which has its own individual duties, its special range of relations, and special forms of combination. Thus in each organic co-ordination there are not only the ruling and working sub-personalities of an individual character, there are the associate actions of combined and representa tive personalities, the same as in a state and as in a state one personality may be attached to another personality as a check, so diverse organic attributes check other organic attributes, and regulate the general state equipoise by their varied interactions. As with the organic so with the mental attributes: These work collectively, they work individually, they work as committees in sets, and the associate relations are ever changing. The co-ordinate individual is built up of a distinct combination of its many forces, any one or more of which may pass out of co-ordination, and the faculty thus expressed may be lost, reverted, or rendered dormant, as if encysted, the human personality continuing to present all these attributes that at the time are in active co-ordination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.