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to bring its contents into peaceable unity.&quot; If 

 one substitutes for the word &quot; on &quot; the word 

 &quot; through,&quot; one gets a conception of theory and 

 of tnTriking that does justice to the autonomy 

 of the operation and yet so connects it with other 

 activities as to give it a serious business, real pur 

 pose, and concrete responsibility and hence testi- 

 bility. From this point of view the theoretical 

 activity is simply the form that certain practical 

 activities take after colliding, as the most effective 

 and fruitful way of securing their own harmoniza 

 tion. The collision is not theoretical ; the issue in 

 &quot; peaceable unity &quot; is not theoretical. But theory 

 names the type of activity by which the trans 

 formation from war to peace is most amply and 

 securely effected. 1 



Admit, however, the force of Mr. Bradley s 

 contention on its own terms and see how futile is 



*The same point comes out in Mr. Bradley s treatment 

 of the way in which the practical demand for the good or 

 satisfaction is to be taken account of in a philosophical con 

 ception of the nature of reality. He admits that it conies 

 in; but holds that it enters not directly, but because if left 

 outside it indirectly introduces a feature of &quot;discontent&quot; 

 on the intellectual side (see p. 155). This, as an argument 

 for the supremacy of the isolated theoretical standard, loses 

 all its force if we cease to conceive of intellect as from 

 the start an independent function, and realize that intel 

 lectual discontent is the practical conflict becoming deliber 

 ately aware of itself as the most effective means of its own 

 rectification. 



