ABSTRACT
The greatest modification goes on in what psychologists have called dynamic traits—the habits of reacting to particular stimuli and being interested in particular goals. Personality—the habits of the individual—arises from the impact of a hereditary nature upon an environmental pattern. To know a man’s sentiments and attitudes is to know a good deal about his personality. Precision came to the measurement of abilities; it has become reasonably established in the measurement of the great personality source traits of temperament; but in the complex field of psycho-dynamics the possibilities of mathematics and measurement has scarcely yet entered into the heads of most clinical psychologists. Into the derived emotion of reverence, connected with the functioning of what has always been one of the most powerful sentiment structures binding man to his culture—that toward religion—there enters a most complex variety of dynamic threads, principally involving the drives producing emotions of fear, gratitude, and wonder.
