Crossword-Solution: ABSOLUTES 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

These gentlemen are the amateurs—the _Richards_, _Shylocks_, _Beverleys_, and _Othellos_—the _Young Dorntons_, _Rovers_, _Captain Absolutes_, and _Charles Surfaces_—a private theatre.

There are brightnesses in my secret places in the woods, and lamps in my gardens beneath the hills, tended by the angels of God, and behind my face there is another face not hated by the Bright Ones.” So the three Absolutes arose and strode mightily away; and as they went their thunderous speech to each other boomed against the clouds and the earth like a gusty wind, and, even when they had disappeared, that great rumble could be heard dying gently away in the moonlit distances.

They had learned long lists of Latin words, with their meanings; they had wrestled in their teens with gerunds, supines, ablative absolutes and distracting rules about the subjunctive mood, and they had tried in vain to take an interest in stately authors far above their understanding.

Moral absolutes and concern for others do not play a major role in their lives, which are shaped by practical experiences tending towards self-sufficiency, sometimes confused with independence.

Such absolutes, infinite and eternal, whether described as an infinite love which loves itself or a thought thinking thought, are nothing more to Renouvier than vain words, which it is absurd to offer as “The Living God.” Against these metaphysical erections Renouvier opposes his doctrines of freedom, of personality, relativity and pluralism.