 According to Bosanquet, the “mainspring of movement and effort in [the finite] world” is “contradiction” (op. cit., p. xxviii). Nevertheless, as principles come into conflict, a process of harmonisation also occurs. Terms are readjusted or new distinctions are introduced, so that conflicting elements find a place in the result. This process or method of meeting and removing contradiction, characteristic of the growth of any thing, is what Bosanquet calls the argument a contingentia mundi, and it is through this process that we come to the Absolute. 