"The spirit at once surrenders itself to this universal claim and appropriates
it for itself. So far as it is dominated by religious experience, life
is conditioned by this formative principle, equally individual and general,
equally actual and beyond completed act, equally compelling recognition
and permissive of disregard.
This principle is not a dogmatic formulation, but the intuition of immediate
occasions as failing for succeeding in reference to the ideal relevant
to them. There is a rightness attained or missed, with more or less completeness
of attainment or omission.
This is a revelation of character, apprehended as we apprehend the characters
of our friends. But in this case it is an apprehension of character permanently
inherent in the nature of things"- A N Whitehead
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