But without indulging in unchivalrous reflections we may draw certain morals from it of both immediate and ultimate applicability.
To begin with, it is a most salutary warning to the introspective, and in the second place it is a striking instance of a myth which is not a sun myth; for it is essentially of human regard, an attempt on man's part to explain that most peculiar attribute of his constitution, the all-possessing sense of self.

It looks certainly as if he was not over-proud of his person that he should have deemed its recognition occasion for the primal curse, and among early races the person is for a good deal of the personality.

What he lamented was not life but the unavoidable exertion necessary to getting his daily bread, for the question whether life were worth while was as futile then as now, and as inconceivable really as 4-dimensional space.
We are then conscious of individuality as a force within ourselves.

But our knowledge by no means ends there; for we are aware of it in the case of others as well.
About certain people there exists a subtle something which leaves its impress indelibly upon the consciousness of all who come in contact with them.

This something is a power, but a power of so indefinable a description that we beg definition by calling it simply the personality of the man.