The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

He was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit. Moore and Bertrand Russell in the early 1900s. Consistently his own view combined monism with absolute idealism.

Francis Herbert Bradley OM (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.