ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on The Development of Individuality; The Continuity of the Individual Self; Individual Character; Individual Self-assertion; The Value of the Individual; The Self and its Embodiment; Embodiment in Extra-organic Objects; Personal Immortality; The Conception of the Super-personal; The Personal Significance of Education. The consciousness of free choice gives to human beings a kind of individuality which is not possible to beings who lack that consciousness. What seems to constitute our specific individuality as persons is the compact system of our conscious possessions, and especially our valuations. The interest in individual character has developed slowly, growing along with the recognition of individual freedom. These may, no doubt, be in abeyance for a time-as they are in profound sleep, or in our ordinary dream experiences, or even throughout considerable tracts of our waking life-without any loss of personal identity; but only on condition that they are recoverable.
