ABSTRACT
Human personality is yet the thing that we know best, as being the only thing that we know at first hand, and from within. Human personality exhibits spirit and matter in combination; such intimate combination that they do not admit of being completely sundered. Spirit has two different relations to matter, that of transcendence, and that of immanence. But though logically distinct, these two relations are not actually separate; they are two aspects of one fact; two points of view from which the single action of our one personality may be regarded. Spirit which is merely immanent in matter, without also transcending it, cannot be spirit at all; it is only another aspect of matter, having neither self-identity nor freedom. Pantheism is thus really indistinguishable from materialism; it is merely materialism grown sentimental, but no more tenable for its change of name.
