not what I mean。 I mean much more than that。 I mean that one has one’s self no mental picture corresponding to the mental picture which one’s personality leaves in the minds of one’s friends。 Has it ever struck you that there is a mysterious individual going around ; walking the streets; calling at houses for tea; chatting; laughing; grumbling; arguing; and that all your friends know him and have long since added him up and e to a definite conclusion about him — without saying more than a chance; cautious word to you; and that that person is you! Supposing that you came into a drawing room where you were having tea; do you think you would recognize yourself as an individuality? I think not。 You would be apt to say to yourself as guests do when disturbed in drawing rooms by other guests,“Who’s this chap2? Seems rather queer。 I hope he won’t be a bore。”And your first telling would be slightly hostile。 Why; even when you meet yourself in an unsuspected mirror in the very clothes that you have put on that very day and that you know by heart; you are almost always shocked by the realization that you are you。 And now and then; when you have gone to the glass to arrange your hair in the full sobriety of early morning; have you not looked on an absolute stranger; and has not that stranger piqued your curiosity? And if it is thus with precise external details of form; colour; and movement; what may it not be with the vague plex effect of the mental and moral individuality?
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