ABSTRACT
MONISM', popularly intending the unity of totality, might be defined as obsession of finite limitation a fate of the planet-born or orbicular intelligence. The monism of the circle, the recoil of compensation is quaintly put by Emerson in his poem, 'Uriel'. Under countenance of our idealism and monism one may now revert more familiarly to our original ground and purpose. It should be obvious that monism, or oneism in philosophy, is a vision through the lens of the human ego as a pattern on which its cosmos is designed. The worlds of idealism are home made; they are the microcosms of which monism is a macrocosm constricted to unity by its own egotistic limitation, founded, philosophically, upon faith in 'self-consciousness'. Vulgar monism founds largely on the uncultured sentiment that there must be recognized an all and whole of the world that is other than the intelligent witness of it.
