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Wilkes continues the argument of earlier sections, stressing that man requires complete dominion over consciousness to anticipate ideal unity. But the value of this dominion is in the "striving" not the "achievement". Eden is found by merging oneself in the time-process, seeking, by unremitting effort, to make explicit the transcendant self within.