As a matter of fact, whatever theories we may hold to the contrary, we do all realize the same cosmic environment in the same way; that is to say, our minds all act according to certain generic laws which underlie all our individual diversities of thought and feeling.

This is so because we are made that way and cannot help it.

But with the Personal Factor the case is different.

A standard is no less necessary, but we are not so made as to conform to it automatically.

The very conception of automatic conformity to a _personal_ standard is self-contradictory, for it does away with the very thing that constitutes personality, namely freedom of volition, the use of the powers of Initiative and Selection.