God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

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.