must be some via media between them, which makes it possible to conceive of Reality as a multiplicity of individual, finite, growing lives, immanent in a universal and eternally complete Life; and of this via media the doctrine of Degrees is a brief but boundlessly suggestive statement. Let us summarise the constructive principles which we have employed in these pages. They are the following: (1) that Thought has a real content—i.e., has a structure which works or grows according to laws of its own; it is not (as with Herbart, Lotze, and the Formal Logicians) a merely formal activity capable only of arranging foreign material: (2) that owing to a mass of inherited and unconscious prejudices, the true Law of Identity always tends to be forgotten in particular even if acknowledged in general: (3) that the operation of Thought is inconceivable except as involving the presence of an element of Immediacy, out of which Thought itself, together with the experience which Thought makes intelligible, arises: (4) that human experience as a whole, and regarded as a hierarchical system, is the only possible revelation of the Absolute for man: (5) that the highest Ideals which rule our experience are, and are at times known to be, the very presence of the Absolute in us: (6) that this conclusion is explicable by the doctrine of Degrees in Reality and Truth, by which an adequate Philosophy is enabled to do justice both to the Individual side of our nature, to the reality of our finite, growing self, -and to its universal side, to the self-revelation of the Absolute in it. 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