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made in its pool of water.
Through all the varied uses of this
idiom, among much that is but of secondary
interest, my primary position will not, I
hope, be forgotten. We have seen that
the relation, which connects men and things
with a very large portion of their conditions
and belongings, is the relation of locality —
the " space " relation. As things and states
were seen to affect us and to become
related to us, because they were at us, or
071 us, or with us, so now, vice versa, things
and states affect us and become related to
us, all the more, because we are in them.
My virtue or vice, my courage or cowardice,
my habits and stated avocations, my physi-
cal, mental, and moral attitudes, are no
longer mere accidents of my personality.
They are grafted, as living branches into
the tree of my personality ; or rather my
personality is merged in them. What I
am to myself and to the world, my worth
or worthlessness, is just what they make
me, and enable me to do in the way of good