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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

of progress is at on prepared to meet this objection by admitting that what is truest is old, and that the new always supplements and assimilates the old. But the critic's attitude is not the state of mind of the one who most keenly appreciates the spirit of his age. One would not think of going to him for instruction. Even the old must be studied in new form, and it is not the conservative who teaches that. Let an rather follow those who err on the other side, and hereafter devote more of our time to the cultivation of the spirit of progress than to the preservation of what is hoary and reverend.

If the reader accepts this point of view as applied to education, he will probably follow the clue even unto immortality. For if anything be experimental, it is the future life. This statement does not imply that the existence of a future life is in doubt, for there is abundant moral and spiritual evidence for immortality; but that each soul will enter the future as into the most enticingly novel experiment. It is only one step more to the premise that the universe itself is an experiment: it is given us by the Father to see what development it will produce in us. Not that the universe is in any sense chaotic or inharmonious. Not that its continued existence is at all uncertain, or its goodness at all problematical. So far as its law-governed, wonderfully exact, wisely adapted, and nobly beautiful system is concerned, the universe is no experiment; it is far from being an enigma. Mathematically and universally it may be depended upon to return action

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