That the space and time order is phenomenal and not ultimate, can, I think, be conclusively shown by a general argument which I will first enunciate in principle and then develop somewhat more in detail. An all-comprehensive experience cannot apprehend the detail of existence under the forms of space and time for the following reason. Such an experience could be neither of space and time as we perceive them, nor of space and time as we conceptually reconstruct them. It would not be of perceptual space and time, because the whole character of our perceptual space and time depends upon the very imperfections and limitations which make our experience fragmentary and imperfect. Perceptual space and time are for me what they are, because I see them, so to say, in perspective from the special standpoint of my own particular _here_ and _now_. If that standpoint were altered, so that what are actually for me _there_ and _then_ became my _here_ and _now_, my whole outlook on the space and time order would suffer change. But the Absolute cannot look at the space and time order from the standpoint of my _here_ and _now_. For it is the finitude of my interests and purposes which confine me in my outlook to this _here_ and _now_. If my interests were not bound up in the special way in which they are with just this special part or aspect of the life of a wider whole, if they were co-extensive with the life of that whole, every place and every time would be my _here_ and _now_. As it is, _here_ is where my body is, _now_ is this particular stage in the development of European social life, because these are the things in which I am primarily _interested_. And so with all the other finite experiences in which the detail of the absolute experience finds expression. Hence the absolute experience, being free from the limitations of interest which condition the finite experiences, cannot see the order of existence from the special standpoint of any of them, and therefore cannot apprehend it under the guise of the perceptual space and time system.