over-all-controlling

Updated: May 12, 2025

William James doubted it and so frankly adopted Pluralism which is perhaps just a way of saying that we cannot reconcile the contending forces in our world order with one over-all-controlling power as his solution of the problem. Josiah Royce has valiantly maintained, through long and subtle argument, the goodness of the whole despite the evil of the incidental.

Gaius Glenn Atkins - Modern Religious Cults and Movements