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necessary recognition of others in the very primal intelligent 

 act whereby he defines himself and gives intelligible mean- 

 ing to his saying /. The spontaneous logical form of this 

 first certainty for each, is thus primordially social. By this 

 the system reveals the fact that Kant's " categorical impera- 

 tive," in its final and fully significant form, So act as to 

 regard humanity, whether thine oivn or that of atiother, as 

 an E?id withal, and never merely as a means, is in reality 

 the very first principle of knowledge. Hence the moral 

 principle gets the desired warrant from intelligence which 

 past systems have all failed to give it. The interrupting 

 Kantian gap between morality and intelligence is closed ; 

 morality itself becomes intellectual — at once itself objective, 

 inclusive of others equally real with the self, and conferring 

 objectivity, that is, universally intelligible value, upon the 

 individual intelligence. The sources of objective moral 

 judgment in the world of time and circumstance are also 

 thus laid open to the experience of each mind, in the 

 power to consult the public judgment and to verify or 

 correct the private judgment by it. 



(3) Fulfilled freedom, however, as the experimental reali- 

 sation of a moral life, foimded in autono77ious judgment, de- 

 pends upon the Immortality of the Individual, in the sense 

 of the everlastingness of his process of experience. On no 

 other terms, as Kant has well shown, can the moral person 

 fulfil his task to win the realisation of his divine ideal, the 

 reduction of his transitional life under the dominance of 

 his eternal choice of the image of God — the image of per- 

 fect Holiness, Justice, and Love. Now the new idealism, 

 the organic Rational Pluralism, furnishes the only clear 

 proofs of individual immortality, in the sense of an ever- 

 lasting personal continuance in a world of perceptions 

 organised by the presence of eternal ideals, supplying 

 power for their eventual victory. But lack of space forbids 

 me from here rehearsing tliese proofs. I uiujt refer the 



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