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216 one that might be expressed as the actual Divine Love for this world. The same character has been defined by the term “Will” in the foregoing discussion. The presence of such a character, its value as the very element whereby the Absolute Experience attains wholeness and complete self-possession, and its further character as an element irreducible to the terms of mere thought and mere content of experience, — all these features may now well be suggested by calling this the Divine Love.

But, in the foregoing, one consideration has been introduced that has remained, as yet, undeveloped. I refer to what has been said concerning the relation of Will to Individuality. I have said that the object of Will is, as such, an individuated object. How much is implied in this consideration, cannot be understood until we have undertaken the extremely difficult task of examining the fundamental nature of the category of Individuality. To this I now proceed, in the Third Part of the present paper.