Excerpt from The Springs of Character
The word character means the mark a Babylonian brickmaker stamped upon the bricks he made. Character is the stamp of the individual, and all personality is ultimately based upon it. The word is here used throughout in a purely popular way, as the sum of the distinctive differences in our mental and moral qualities.
Character may be defined as the personal shape the mind becomes by use, as a glove or a shoe soon acquires the outlines of its owner's hand or foot.
Character is the psychical, as the body is the physical representation or presentment of the individual, and inasmuch as "I" am a spirit and not a body, character is the true outward personality, the of the ego; character, moreover, is no mere sum of isolated qualities, it is an organic whole; just as the body is an unit, and not a mere aggregation of units and organs. It is, as Stout would say, "a noetic synthesis".
The word character may, of course, be used in two senses - (1) as the general sum of all mental qualities, or (2) as the sum of the moral qualities specially. We shall use the word in both ways.
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