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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

is true to-day only in so far as it bears the new emphasis of our time. Each day may reveal the same great laws and to the same great lesson. But its meaning is apprehended in its fullest sense only when interpreted in the light of the new aspects which the progressive chemistry of our experiment reveals—ever crystallising, yet ever surprising the observer with new combinations.

Lest the reader fear that our point of view be founded on quicksand, let us, however, supplement what at one time threatened to be were agnosticism by turning from the experimental or human side to a brief statement of the system by which, starting with existence as given, the universe is to be interpreted in this volume.

1. The fundamental principle is that within and behind all that comes and goes, all that appears so enigmatical but is in deepest truth the product of wisest foresight, the great All-Father exists, the supreme Spirit, eternal, omnipresent; the immanent source of all life, all power, all beings and forms, holding them, holding all experiments together as one harmonious system.

2. The second great principle is the existence of the human soul, or the real, permanent, spiritual self in each of us, differing in each, in each having some spiritual meaning as related to the contests and triumphs of our personal and social evolution.

3. The universe, visible and invisible, is the expression or embodiment of Spirit, progressively revealing itself as system, reason, beauty, unity in

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