" The wisdom of subjective aim prehends every actuality for what it can be in such a perfected system - its sufferings, its sorrows, its failures, its triumphs, its immediacies of joy - woven by rightness of feeling into the harmony of the universal feeling, which is always immediate, always many, always one, always with novel advance moving onward and never perishing. The revolts of destructive evil, purely self regarding, are dismissed into the triviality of merely individual facts; and yet the good they did achieve in individual joy, in individual sorrow,in the introduction of needed contrast, is yet saved by its relation to the completed whole. The image- and it is but an image- under which this operative growth of God's nature is best conceived is that of a tender care that nothing be lost.
The consequent nature of God is his judgment on the world. He saves the world as it passes into the immediacy of his own life. It is the judgement of tenderness which loses nothing which can be saved. It is the judgement of a wisdom which uses that what in the temporal world is mere wreckage"
From "Process and Reality" pg. 407-408
Published 1929
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