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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

And now another messenger from the subconscious is waiting with a book. It is entitled The Law of Psychic Phenomena, by Hudson. It is not so old as the above described volumes, and it has been out of the library only once or twice. With it come volumes which somehow have grown since I placed them there. About Hudson's theory there cluster all the arguments against it which have gathered since his artificial hypothesis appeared. Through no conscious effort of mine, the subconscious librarian has catalogued and arranged them all, where at the mere mention of the name, Hudson, they rise en masse into the pyramid.

In the first place, Hudson's theory that this deeper mind is incapable of inductive reasoning does not coincide with the facts, either in the case of those acute observers with whom I have compared notes or with the facts of my own consciousness which, as I have said, constantly reveals the inductions of subconsciousness. Let as inquire into this subject for a moment.

What is induction? Webster defines it as "reasoning from a part to a whole, or from particulars to generals." Mill tells us that it is "inference from the known to the unknown." Jevons more fully defines it' as the detection of "general laws or uniformities, the relations of cause and effect." He believes, with most philosophers, that the greater part of our knowledge is thus derived.

Now this is precisely the process of which, so far

(1) Lessons in Logic

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