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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

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After all, it would be annoyingly prosaic to solve the mystery. It would be stultifying to become perfect, to walk the golden streets day after day and find no change. The zest of pursuit, the novelty of ever-mutative days and months and years keeps the mind perpetually young. Life can never become a burden to those who, in all the freshness and enthusiasm of healthy thought, awaken each morning to look out upon another day, eager to know what new mystery it holds. For a mind alert and active, life could not be better constituted than it is. The greater the enigma the better, if only it be so great that it can never be solved.

Life, therefore, is through and through an experiment, and we the experimenters seek to make of it what we can, always remembering that what we make to-day may be outdone or discarded by what we make to-morrow. For no one knows what man is yet to be, how he is to live, and what powers are to be his — possibly on other planets. Every ideal is relative to the condition of mind of the seer who proclaims it. What is called "the Absolute" is a pleasing conceit of speculative fancy. Forward is the only ultimate word. Every new summit is sure to reveal a novel and enticing landscape beyond.

It would seem as though we might sometime complete the circuit. Then what? Drearily repeat it? No, then were the universe a deceit indeed, and only a machine after all. Rather say that two

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