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We certainly do sense ourselves and others as parts of the encompasssing encompassing whole, so that, as Whitehead puts it, at the base of all our ordinary sense perception of ourselves and the world is a sense of "the one which is all" as well as a sense of "the one among the many." To this extent, we do indeed have a sense of "the individual whose majesty is exalted beyond possible rivalry," since being such an individual is all that the universal individual, "the one which is all," could conceivably be. Moreover, in sensing this universal individual, we may be said to have a sense of "the all-worshipful God," if all that is meant by "God" is just such a universal and, therefore, all-worshipful individual.

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