No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

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.