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no limit to this getting out of selfishness. All the great systems of ethics preach absolute unselfishness as the goal: Supposing this absolute unselfishness can be reached by a man, what. becomes of that man? He is no more the little Mr. So-and-So; he has acquired infinite expansion: That little personality which he had before is now lost for him for ever ; he has become infinite, and the attainment of this infinite expansion is indeed the goal of all religions and of all moral and philosophical teachings. The personalist, when he hears this idea philosophically put, gets frightened. At the same time, if he preaches morality, he after all teaches the very same idea himself. He puts no limit to the unselfishness of man. Suppose a man becomes perfectly unselfish under the personalistic system, how are we to distinguish him from the perfected ones in other systems? He has become one with the universe, and to become that is the goal of all; only: the poor personalist has not the courage to follow out his own reasoning to its right conclusion.
