ABSTRACT
In this brief statement we have used two terms which require careful definition. When we say that a being has become more individualised, we mean that he has become more an autonomous being, more a distinct personality self-directed and self-determining, recognising and recognised as having in himself a worth or value of his own. When again we speak of socialisation we mean the process in which a being strikes deeper root in society, in which his social relations grow more complex and
individual, but a certain aspect of it. It was pointed out at the beginning of this work that every man's character or self is personality woven of individuality and sociality. When we speak of individuality we mean that quality and power of self-determination and seH-expression which is as necessary to the growth of personality as is the social environment. Individuality does not therefore mean mere difference, still less mere eccentricity. Certain philosophies have spurned individuality because they have conceived it in this abstract and unreal form, but that seH-determination which is the core of individuality need not and should not be based on the difference of man from man. Personality is the substantia] reality and end which individuality and sociality together determine, and any doctrine which exalts either of these aspects at the expense of the other, or either of them at the expense of their unity in personality, is partial and untrue to the facts of life. To understand how individuality and sociality have revealed their consentaneous growth in the concrete personalities of men, as these have emerged out of the meagre group-controlled uniformities of primitive life into the richer and more autonomous natures which even the most ordinary members of our own civilisation possess, that is the key to the understanding of the whole process of communal development.
