The word 'personality' has been used in different senses and different meanings have generally been assigned to it. But the truth seems to lie in this: The essential characteristic of a person id self-consciousness; but self-consciousness is not a bare or undifferentiated unity of an essence or of a substance, but a complex or differentiated unity of a system or a world. Thus, a person is a self-conscious system, or world of diversified elements. Again, this ...