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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

Again, there is boundless inspiration in the modern belief in the dignity and worth of the individual. This faith in the right of every human soul to exist is an indissoluble part of the new belief in society as a democratic organism. We all know nowadays that, however the social problem is solved, it must take equal account of the individual as such and the individual as member of a social whole. Each man must have every possible opportunity to make what he can of himself, yet each is expected to contribute his share to the general development. Thus the individual is not the pitiable personage who might possibly have a chance under the old regime in case his sins were forgiven. He has the right to hold his head up and be a man in his own sphere. He is regarded as through and through free,—that is, potentially,—and as capable of mastering any unfavourable circumstance in which he may be placed.

This belief in individual freedom is of course, much older than the modern doctrine of evolution. It began far back in the Middle Ages when the doctrines of Abelard, and others who believed in the rights of individual reason, spread in France and Italy; and, combining with the spirit of the Renaissance, prepared the way for the Protestant Reformation. Without this great movement and the reform instituted by Martin Luther and his contemporaries, the great scientific development of our century would have been impossible. For it was not until man was free to think for himself that the remarkable

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