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monious interconnection of elements. So far as such inter- 

 connection is achieved both can claim to possess objective 

 truth, i.e. truth independent of and superior to opinion or 

 (on the practical side) desire, though neither can claim fin- 

 ality in their rendering of the truth. On the practical as on 

 the theoretical side then we take the movement of mind to 

 be a movement towards truth through progressive harmony. 

 But on the one side the aim of rational construction is an 

 appreciation, partial but within its limits just, of the Real 

 Order, on the practical side it is the appreciation, as an 

 object of effort, of an ideal which is rationally justified, and 

 founded on the real conditions of the spiritual order. On 

 this side also the appreciation is partial, and what is held 

 good is so held subject to the fuller understanding of the 

 conditions of development. In both cases the movement 

 of mind may be regarded as a movement towards reality, 

 in which the appreciation of its own development is the 

 final condition of a just orientation. It appears conse- 

 quently that the movement as a whole is founded on 

 conditions in the nature of reality, and has therefore the 

 elements of durability and persistence. But this inference 

 opens deeper questions, to the examination of which we 

 now turn. 



