Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

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.