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THE ENLARGEMENT OF PERSONALITY BEHAVIOR PATTERNS AND THEIR FORMATION BY T. H. DENISON - - - r - of Emotion as the Basis of Civilization CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS NEW YORK LONDON 1930 COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Printed in the United States of America A INTRODUCTION During the war there was a hospital at Chalons for men wounded in the face. A girl came there to visit her fiance, whose whole face had been shot away, so that no feature remained. She was filled with horror and could not believe that this featureless being was her fiance. Every familiar expression was lost. The face she had learned to love was gone. For her, the mans face was he. Without it she could not recognize him. This naturally suggests a query. If your body were stripped off would your friends still be able to recognize you You doubtless feel that there is something there independent of your features, that you would still have an individuality if your face were gone. You have certain ways of thinking, certain strong feelings and peculiar prejudices, certain standards of conduct. If they were made manifest, even if your body were invisible, you feel sure that your friend would say Why that is old Jim Id know him anywhere Now each of us has some sort of a picture of this self of ours that is hidden behind the face. Some of us, per haps, are quite satisfied with the portrait we see, and feel that it cannot be improved upon. Others who have been forced by circumstances to compare themselves with certain heroic souls, or who have fallen down under some of the severe tests of life, or who have met with ridicule and contumely whenever they have granted the world a glimpse of the self within, others, I say, wouldbe pleased to have a few alterations and emendations in the portrait, and there are some sufficiently dissatisfied to desire an entire and absolute change. Man has acquired of late years the most amazing power to manipulate and alter the material world about him, through the discoveries and inventions of science. However much he is interested in the material world, and however much he may pretend to be interested in others, by courteously directing the conversation to their virtues, it is probable that to every man the most vital object of interest is himself. If Science should give him power to alter the whole outside universe and fail to assist him in doing what he wants with himself, he would be likely to consider it a failure. Science has taken the most marvellous strides in providing means to alter the outer self and thousands are toiling and suffering to avail themselves of its aid. Sagging cheeks are lifted, noses are straightened, jaws rebuilt, hair recolored, and permanently waved, the waist-line is altered and the muscles are built up. But all this does not add those touches we desire to the portrait of the inner man strength of character, personal charm, power over men, serenity, happiness, there seems to be no recognized formula that will produce these things. One would think that by this time a man should be able to order any kind of self he prefers and have the chemical ingredients sent him in a neat little package. Unfortunately, when it approaches the self, science seems in a hopeless snarl In fact some dodge the question by telling us that the Self is an illusion, a mere complex of reactions caused by external stimuli. But that does not trouble us seriously for we arebeginning to think that illusions are much more vital and important than realities. Our body at least appears to be solid, but here come the scientists and tell us that if all the electrons of which it is composed were collected in a solid lump it would be barely visible with a magnifying glass So it is really empty space with not enough solid to be seen with the naked eye And now they tell us that even the electrons are not solid, but only intersecting wavelets in the sub ether...