Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

J. Royce himself declared the “successive expressions” of the philosophy of loyalty “form a consistent body of ethical as well as religious opinion and teaching verifiable in its main outlines in terms of human experience and capable of furnishing a foundation for a defensible form of metaphysical idealism. Philosophical Library.

Josiah Royce (November 20 1855 – September 14 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher.