Chapter XXIII -- The Vision of Perfection

These writers are also, by virtue
of the faculty of discerning the
interior relations of appearances and
events, the expositors of that ultimate
Idealism which not only discovers the
possibility of the whole in the parts,
of the perfect in the imperfect, but
which discovers the whole, the com-
plete and the perfect, and brings each
before us in some noble form. The
reality of the Ideal as Plato saw it is
by no means universally accepted as a
philosophical conclusion, but all high-@
minded men and women accept it as a
rule of life. Idealism is wrought into

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