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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

better? What is the meaning of life as it exists to-day, and what may it become by co-operative social and ethical activity?

Would-be reformers still unsparingly condemn the present social order, it is true, and urge upon on their artificial Utopian schemes. Many exceedingly earnest people spend their lives whetting discontent among the labouring classes. But every deeply thoughtful person now knows that all reform begins within and with the individual, and spreads, through gradual evolution, out of to-day into tomorrow. Consequently, the progressive life of our time may be said to inspire those only who voice this new belief in the unity of the cosmos and the solidarity of the race.

Although this change of attitude is already so marked in its effect upon theology and upon methods of reform, few people as yet realise its radical influence upon the details of daily life. The majority know only that the old order is disappearing and that a new is coming, ushering in changes so great that no one is far-sighted enough to prophesy the result. It is well, then, before we consider the specific problems of this book, to examine this reformation in detail—that is, so far as we are able to detect its scope and meaning.

Many causes are assignable for the growth of this new spirit. Some would no doubt attribute it to the spreading of what may be called the new democracy. In as it is the direct outgrowth of the principles of liberty and equality on which

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