Excerpt from Personality: With Special Reference to Superpersonalities and the Interpersonal Character of Ideas

What we call personality constitutes the distinctive feature of a person, and a person is a human being of a concrete and definite individuality. Human means rational, and so the term person is used in contrast to lower creatures such as brute animals. Accordingly we understand by personality all the several features of a man's individual existence, including his bodily appearance, his habits and his character; and a man evinces his superiority over beasts not only by his intelligence and foresight, but also and mainly by his moral aspirations. Personality therefore is prized highest among all the good things to be met in the field of our experience. We respect, or at least ought to respect, personality in others, and one's own personality is a sacred trust which implies weighty and high duties.

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