an order organised by the self-active forms of consciousness that in their unity constitute the substantial 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
