We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

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.