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Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

`` The best condition of it would be an open conflict and rivalry of the diverse systems.

The world might ring with the struggle, if we devoted ourselves exclusively to belaboring each other ''.