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an order organised by the self-active forms of con- 

 sciousness that in their unity constitute the sub- 

 stantial being of a mind, in distinction from its 

 phenomenal life. 



II. Accordingly, Time and Space, and all that 

 both " contain," owe their entire existence to the 

 essential correlation and coexistence of minds. This 

 coexistence is not to be thought of as either their 

 simultaneity or their contiguity. It is not at all 

 spatial, nor temporal, but must be regarded as simply 

 their logical implication of each other in the self- 

 defining consciousness of each. And this recognition 

 of each other as all alike self-determining, renders 

 their coexistence a moral order. 



III. These many minds, being in this mutual 

 recognition of their moral reality the determining 

 ground of all events and all mere "things," form the 

 eternal {i.e. unconditionally real) world; and by a 

 fitting metaphor, consecrated in the usage of ages, 

 they may be said to constitute the "City of God." 

 In this, all the members have the equality belonging 

 to their common aim of fulfilling their one Rational 

 Ideal; and God, the fulfilled Type of every mind, 

 the living Bond of their union, reigns in it, not 

 by the exercise of power, but solely by light ; not 

 by authority, but by reason ; not by efficient, but 



