IDEALISM postulates that reality is a single system, so that it is possible to pass from any point in it to the standpoint of the whole. If the implications of any part of experience were developed fully we would be led inevitably to the entire system within which this part has its being and significance. The intention of this paper is in a sense a defence of the reality of time against certain methods of articulating this postulate of Idealism, and I may be accused of setting a value on what is merely actual against the deeper insight which transforms the given and finds things to be other than they seem. It is advisable therefore to make clear that although current forms of Idealism are alleged to be defective, the remedy is not a transition to Pluralism, but a more genuine interpretation of the Absolute. Not less but more system is required. The obvious finitude of our minds does not imply that we have a firm abiding place in any particular fact or mode of life. It seems clear thatsuch principles or facts as life, the will, the self are not self-explanatory. They point to large portions of reality beyond them, they arise in the course of time, they have presuppositions both in a temporal and in a logical sense, and we have to admit that in our experience, at any rate, they do not mount to the level of complete universality. The individual finite self is the vehicle of forces and influences which are wider than it is; and whether we call this wider reality Nature, or the Absolute, or Humanity, or God, the particular self when compared with it is imperfect, weak and dependent. No particular experience can stand undisturbed amid the movement of things; every part of our world is symbolic and self-transcendent in some degree. The first task of an Idealist philosophy is to change the attitude of the thinker. Instead of taking some one particular datum as stable and absolute, e.g., the Cartesian self or the 7Pragmatists' purpose, and interpreting all in the light of this unexamined fact, Idealism' acknowledges that nothing short of the system of experience as a whole is absolute. If we were to adopt in all sincerity the Humanistic scale of values,