And it seems as if in answering such a question as this we might proceed exactly as does the physical philosopher in testing an hypothesis . [ . . . ] So here : the verification of the theory which you may hold as to the objectively moral character of the world can consist only in this that if you proceed to act upon your theory it will be reversed by nothing that later turns up as your action's fruits; it will objectively moral universe, all acts that I make on that assumption, all expectations that I ground on it, will tend more and more completely to interdigitate with the phenomena already existing . [ . . . ] While if it be not such a moral universe, and I mistakenly assume that it is, the course of experience will throw ever new impediments in the way of my belief, and become more and more difficult to express in its language.
