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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

the American republic is founded. But, undoubtedly, the one factor without which all this development would have been impossible, is the rise and wide-spread acceptance of the doctrine of evolution. Many secondary causes have played their part, but it was the contributions of Darwin, Wallace, Spencer, and their immediate predecessors and followers in the scientific world, which furnished the new background on which these other issues could be displayed to advantage.

Philosophy had long ago prepared the way for belief in the unity of the world-process: it was modern science which supplied the evidence or proof, by showing that all forces are to many diverse forms of one ultimate energy. The evidence once at hand, philosophers could place it in its true light, could carry out their doctrine more in detail; and, beginning where science paused, show what this one energy is, how the whole great scheme of divine self-manifestation is realised in the wonderful processes which science had so graphically described.

The cosmic process accepted as a unit, the second great advance was made through the discovery of the evolutionary origin of evil. What had before been either an absolute mystery, or the subject to which theology claimed exclusive right, now began to be very clear and to become generally understood. For when man's kinship with and indebtedness to the lower animals was established, it at once became evident whence came those tendencies and

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