“This light within may indeed prove to be the witness of God in my being, but it is not God himself.”

Source: The City of God and the True God as its Head (In Royce’s “The Conception of God: a Philosophical Discussion Concerning the Nature of the Divine Idea as a Demonstrable Reality”), p.112

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