The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

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.