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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

identically similar situations never occur. The novelty, the surprise sometimes even outbalances the familiar, the known. Every circumstance is a new combination. To the end, and that means that there is no end, life for the wide-awake soul is an experiment, and at any time new factors are likely to be discovered in our problem.

This being so, it is wisdom to adjust ourselves at the beginning, and make up our minds that education will never cease. It is impossible nowadays "to prepare" for a science or profession, and thereby become masters of all that is known. Even Euclid's geometry, the authority for ages, now has a rival in the field.

Once adopted, the attitude of constant readjustment is far from unpleasant. It is a healthy state of mind, this holding of all problems in solution. It immediately lifts one above time and place and the mind grows young with the ages. It does away with all the dogmatism, conceit, intolerance, and intellectual aristocracy which have encumbered human progress. It insists upon entire democracy of spirit, and the newest experimenter is welcomed as at any time likely to upset our profoundest theories. What a reformation this attitude would make if it were universal the mind can hardly conceive, since so few have as yet attained it.

Of course the critic will immediately declare that this is a very extreme point of view, that there really is nothing new under the sun, and all this talk about readjustment is uncalled for. The disciple

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