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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

for action. But each man learns its laws experimentally, and no man as yet knows all of these. For each it is also an experiment because certain of its materials are plastic. For each it is virtually what each man's enlightenment makes it. Thus the experiment enlarges as the soul unfolds. Meanwhile the Father watches, and, watching, unifies the contributions of finite souls, not into the form of hard-and-fast fatalism, but into the plastic life which for ever makes anew for organic perfection. The eternal beauty presides over the becoming as well as over the remaining. Ever the Spirit whispers its word of promise as, pausing, it perennially passes onward, onward and upward for ever. The great secret of life is to feel that passing touch, to reveal its beauty to men. Words fail, yet suggest the indescribable. The Spirit will see to it that sometime all shall know the grand ears and beauties, the peace and tenderness of that progressive vision.

Thus, for better or worse, our point of view is progressive, and the reader may expect it to shift even while he turns from chapter to chapter. For there is no consistency possible to the growing mind, except harmony with the inner Spirit as it wells afresh into the inspirations of the new moment. Forms come and go. Terms, methods, and systems have their day. It is the Spirit that abides, and the Spirit dwells ever in the advancing life. It may again and again declare the same message, but what it reveals to-day is of supreme worth, not what it manifested in the past. For the gospel of the past

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