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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

powers which had heretofore been deemed the outgrowths and penalties of original sin.

The origin of evil accounted for, it was an easy step to the conclusion that, if the race is a unit, making for perfection, every faculty and power of man may be turned to good. Therefore, instead of condemning man's lower nature and calling it "bad," it henceforth became simply the lower as contrasted with the higher, not in itself evil, but simply undeveloped. Thus was swept away the very foundation on which the entire orthodox theological structure rested. And although many people do not yet realise it, there was not the slightest reason left for belief in either the fall of man or a propitiatory saviour.

Thus Jehovah was left without an occupation. His office of miraculous creator lead been taken from him by the discovery that the universe is eternal, and all new genera and species the product of untold ages of evolution. And now he was deprived of his right not only as an interfering providence, but as an angry father whose son must he slain in order to assuage the terrible power of his burning wrath.

But what a marvellously warm, loving, tender substitute modern science, with the help of philosophy, has provided! Life is now known to be a unit because all its processes and forces,reveal one immanent, omnipresent Spirit, ever manifesting wisdom, love, power, through the infinitely beautiful system in which he perpetually resides, It is safe to say that never in the history of thought has

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