the latter, subject them to the most radical of all changes by 

 moralizing them. 



That Idealism offers the idea of " Spirit " as the one 

 possible explanation of objects, including political life. Its 

 principle is valid, but its application of it is incomplete, 

 especially in that its accent on difference and negation, except 

 in Hegel, has been too light. 



The fallacy of believing that, because Idealism maintains the 

 spiritual nature of reality, it reduces all things to the same 

 level. Charges against Idealism that have more truth : that its 

 principle is trite, and too general to be of use. 



But Idealism is in process of articulating this principle. It 

 employs it as a hypothesis, which is applied and verified little 

 by little as the experience of the world matures. The contri- 

 bution made by Green to political theory, and the loss which 

 political thought and practice have sustained by his early 

 death. 



