"There is something sacred in every man, but it is not his person. Nor yet is it the human personality. ...what is sacred in a human being is the impersonal in him." ___ This essay, one of Simone Weil’s most powerful and beautiful was written during the last year of her brief life, in the late winter and early spring of 1942-3. The title on the manuscript reads “Collectivity. Person. Impersonal. Right. Justice.” She had recently arrived in England from New York where she had finally left her parents after their flight from Vichy France. This essay appeared in La Table Ronde (December 1950) with the title “La Personnalite humaine, le juste et l’injuste” and in Ecrits de Londres with the title “La Personne et le sacré” [R. Rees].