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Mind that alone has real free-agency. At the same 

 time the aim is not at all to promote a certain other 

 style of pluralism, which one might well enough call 

 individualistic in the bad sense, whose dogmatic ideal 

 is the dissolution of reality into a radically disjunct 

 and wild "multiverse," — to borrow Professor James's 

 expressive coinage, — instead of the universe of final 

 harmony which is the ideal of our reason. 



The pluralism here set forth is far removed from 

 the anarchic individualism that seems to be advo- 

 cated by such thinkers as, for instance. Professor 

 Lutoslawski ; ^ nor is it to be confounded with that 

 "pluralistic or individualistic philosophy" which Pro- 

 fessor James himself, while brilliantly supporting it, 

 defines^ by saying, "According to that philosophy, 

 the truth is too great for any one actual mind, even 

 though that mind be dubbed 'the Absolute,' to know 

 the whole of it. ... There is no point of view 

 absolutely public and universal." Rather, to the 

 theory here set forth, the point of view of every 

 actual mind, as that mind in its eternal wholeness is, 

 is absolutely public and universal ; and even in the 

 mind's temporal aspect, the aspect of its struggle 

 toward knowledge over the rugged road of experi- 



"^ W. I^utoslawski : Uehcr die Grutidvoranssetzwigen unci Conse- 

 quenzen der individualistischen IVelianschauung. Ilelsingfors, 1898. 



- W. James : Talks to Teachers on Psychology, etc.. Preface, page v. 

 New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1900. 



