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Thus, Bosanquet emphasizes the centrahty of thought, ^ and his 

 best examples are from the world of art. 'The true office of thought, 

 we begin to see, is to build up, to inspire with meaning, to in- 

 tensify, to "vivify".' <5 This tendency becomes especially clear in 

 the concluding lecture ('Nature, the Self, and the Absolute') in 

 which Dante's Divine Comedy is chosen as 'a remote analogue of the 

 Absolute'. 7 



NOTES 



1 Cf. our Chapter XI, 'Taine's Position , . .'. 



2 Op. cit., pp. 36-37. 



3 Ibid., p. 38, our italics. 



*♦ Ibid., p. 72, our italics. On the problem of the relations between 'true' and 

 'false' infinites and 'true' and 'false' abstractions, see our Chapter II, Note 103. 



5 In sensation, feeling, free activity: 'The ultimate tendency of thought . . . 

 is not to generalize, but to constitute a world.' {Ibid., p. 55.) 



<> Ibid., pp. 57-58. 



7 Ibid., p. 379. 



