ear; here God is
the General of moral forces. The deeper and more significant universe is

"a society of rational agents, acting under the eye of
Providence, concurring in one design to promote the common
benefit of the whole, and conforming their actions to the
established laws and order of the Divine parental wisdom:
wherein each particular agent shall not consider himself
apart, but as the member of a great City, whose author and
founder is God: in which the civil laws are no other than the
rules of virtue and the duties of religion: and where
everyone's true interest is combined with his duty."[304:28]

But so uncompromising an optimism is not essential to this religion.
Its distinction lies rather in its acceptance of the manifest plurality
of souls, and its appeal to the faith that is engendered by
service.[305:29] As William James has said:

"Even God's being is sacred from ours. To cooperate with his
creation by the best and rightest response seems all he wants
of us. In such cooperation with his purposes, not in any
chimerical speculative conquest of him, not in any theoretical
drinking of him up, must lie the real meaning of our
destiny."[305:30]

FOOTNOTES:

[267:1] PRELIMINARY NOTE. By _Subjectivism_ is meant that system of
philosophy which construes the universe in accordance with the
epistemological principle that _all knowledge is of its own states or
activities_. In so far as subjectivism reduces reality to _states of
knowledge_, such as _perceptions_ or _ideas_, it is _phenomenalism_. In
so far as it reduces reality to a more _internal active principle_ such
as _spirit_ or _will_, it is _spiritualism_.

[268:2] Berkeley: _Complete Works_, Vol. I, p. 352. Fraser's edition.

[269:3] Plato: _Theaetetus_, 156. Translation by Jowett. The italics are
mine.

[270:4] Plato: _Op. cit._, 166.

[271:5] +ale:thes ho hekasto: hekastote dokei.+

[273:6] For another issue out of this situation, cf. Sects. 185-187.

[276:7] Berkeley: _Op. cit._, Vol. I, pp. 380-381.

[276:8] _Ibid._, p. 389.

[277:9] _Ibid._, p. 397.

[278:10] _Ibid._, p. 418.

[279:11] _Ibid._, pp. 403-404.

[282:12] Cf. Pearson: _Grammar of Science_, Chap. II. See above, Sect.
118.

[283:13] See Chap. XI. Cf. also Sect. 140.

[283:14] The same may be said of the "permanent possibilities of
sensation," proposed by J. S. Mill. Such possibilities outsid