PERSONALITY

"We have many teachers on this side. They are all fine characters, but mostly very different in personality. We value each for himself.

"We make more of individual personality than you do. Unless uselessly eccentric, it is considered a valuable asset to be more or less different from others. We recognize I the value of variety, and cultivate all characteristics that bring it about. We do not like to be just like some one else in anything except the desire to acquire knowledge. In the use of that knowledge we develop our individuality. We have those, of course, who carry it to excess, just as you have there. But ordinarily it is some one who has not fully developed the other sides of his personality, and his eccentricity is overlooked as far as possible."

'Do all of these varieties of personality desire to study?'

"Yes, to a certain extent. The kind of knowledge one seeks shows the trend of character, and the use of the knowledge acquired develops it."

"Personality is the greatest fact in the universe. We here believe so thoroughly that man is the final achievement in the universal plan, that we recognize at once that the most perfect man would be the highest achievement. And the most perfect man is the one who best succeeds in filling his appointed niche; which means the one who makes the best use of his talents he possesses. If all were given the same talents all would achieve the same perfection if they were successful; and we know that such a condition would not be satisfactory. But where there are different perfections, different personalities, we have a variety that is endlessly satisfying."