Quote#Freedom
“For life eternal is life germinating in that true and only Inclusive…
Quote byGeorge Holmes Howison · 1834–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The City of God and the True God as its Head (In Royce’s “The Conception of God: a Philosophical Discussion Concerning the Nature of the Divine Idea as a Demonstrable Reality”), p.113.
English (original)
“For life eternal is life germinating in that true and only Inclusive Reason, the supreme consciousness of the reality of the City of God, — the Ideal that seats the central reality of each human being in an eternal circle of Persons, and establishes each as a free citizen in the all-founding, all-governing Realm of Spirits”
— George Holmes Howison
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