PREFACE XV 



This freedom belongs to every one of them in their 

 total or eternal reality, be it burdened and obscured 

 as it may in the world of their temporal experience ; 

 and its intrinsic tendency must be to fulfil itself in 

 this external world also. 



VII. This Pluralism held in union by reason, this 

 World of Spirits, is thus the genuine Unmoved One 

 that moves all Tilings} Not the solitary God, but 

 the whole World of Spirits including God, and united 

 through recognition of him, is the real " Prime 

 Mover " of which since the culmination of Greek 

 philosophy we have heard so much. Its oneness is 

 not that of a single inflexible Unit, leaving no room 

 for freedom in the many, for a many that is really 

 many, but is the oneness of uniting harmony, of 

 spontaneous cooperation, in which every member, 

 from inner initiative, from native contemplation of 

 the same Ideal, joins in moving all things change- 

 able toward the common goal. 



VIII. This movement of things changeable to- 

 ward the goal of a common Ideal is what we have in 

 these days learned to call the process of Evolution. 

 The World of Spirits, as the ground of it, can there- 

 fore neither be the product of evolution nor in any 



^ Aristotle's well-known definition of God, Mdaphys. xi, 7. 



