has the potential to be a God, although restrictive social relations have thwarted the development of most people's potential. For Davidson, because we contain the divine within us, our unfettered natural instincts would impel us to act morally. As individuals became increasingly aware of the divine within themselves, so they became increasingly moral. James believed this individualistic religion made Davidson "indifferent...to socialisms and general administrative panaceas." According to James, Davidson taught that "Life must be flexible. You ask for a free man and these Utopias give you an interchangeable part, with a fixed number, in a rule-bound social organism." Apeirotheism called for the release of each individual's potential divinity through self-cultivation and the nurturing of others rather than through changes in one's material conditions. Davidson was convinced that this release would lead to the only true reform of human society; it was to this task that he devoted the rest of his life. Publications Some of his publications are (ref. LWBL): Davidson, Thomas. A Short Account of the Niobe Group, 1874; Davidson, Thomas (ed.). The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati. London: Kegan Paul, 1882. Davidson, Thomas. The Parthenon Frieze, and Other Essays. London: Kegan Paul, 1882. Davidson, Thomas. The Place of Art in Education, 1886; Davidson, Thomas. Hand-Book to Dante, from the Italian of Scartazzini, with Notes and Additions, 1887; Davidson, Thomas. Prolegomena to Tennyson's In Memoriam; Davidson, Thomas. Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals. New York: Scribner, 1892 (repr. 1905). Davidson, Thomas. The Education of the Greek People and Its Influence on Civilization. New York: Appleton, 1894 (repr. 1906). Davidson, Thomas. Rousseau and Education According to Nature. New York: Scribner, 1898. Davidson, Thomas, with Charles Montague Bakewell as editor. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pvISAAAAYAAJ The Philosophy of Goethe's Faust] Boston: Ginn, 1906. Notes References Further reading International Journal of Ethics, xi. 440 Who's Who in-America, 1900 American Hebrew, lxvii. 514, 585. James A. Good, "The Value of Thomas Davidson." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 289–318. Amy Kittelstrom, The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition.'' New York: Penguin, 2015. External links Hardy, Dennis A., Book: Utopian England: Community Experiments 1900–1945 (Studies in History, Planning, and the Environment) Thomas Davidson papers (MS 169). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1840 births 1900 deaths 19th-century American philosophers Alumni of the University of Aberdeen British emigrants to the United States Idealists Panentheists Panpsychism Philosophers of religion People