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Royce!

the divorce of ideas and experience characterize every form of our human consciousness of finitude, weakness, evil, sin, despair, blah blah blah. through the unity of thought and fact and the feeling of total comprehension, an Omniscient Being can answer a bitter, "Why?"
isn't that nice?
so yeah, there is no universal experience of a concrete fact, only the hope of one. truth is experience. for us there is only experience. our experience is a fragmented version of Absolute Experience, which says, "beyond my world, there is no further experience actual."

he also talks about loyalty! we can't only just conform to conventional morality, we're more than trained animals. a morally significant life entails a life plan, but we are fostered in society to create certain plans. when someone becomes allied in their cause to a community who shares the same cause, a morally significant commitment develops around the shared cause. this commitment is what Royce defines a loyalty. a moral life is understood by the multitude of loyalties one has.

also, our lives are all sweetly unified by the very effort we make to assert ourselves somehow as individuals in our world. sure, maybe we haven't found our place, but the fact that we are all trying gives everyone a kind of unity of purpose.
true individualism finds its purest expression within a community of sociable people.