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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

child is very seldom to blame; it is the attitude and activity of the approach that count.

When we are perfectly honest with ourselves, we confess that in nearly every case where we resorted to force with the little ones, it was because of our own lack of self-control, our impatience. Coercive measures are temporary and degrading substitutes employed while we are on the road to the manifestation and guidance of all things through the silent, gentle power of love and the Spirit. Punishment is self-bringing and, generally speaking, need not be administered by man, if the universe be permitted to teach it through the law of action and reaction. Man's part is to dwell, not on the negative conditions, but upon the ideal which is being achieved through them.

In many other ways, the mental attitude of the parents is the prime factor in the home. In illness as in health it is the father and mother, especially the mother and those who have the care of the child, who give the child's conditions the wrong or right turn. And it is of slight avail to doctor the child if it is cared for by those who are high-strung, nervous, full of fear, or ready to bestow upon the slightest ailment the name of some dreaded disease.

Parents possessed of common sense will keep their children close to nature, regarding the little aches and pains as mere frictions of growth to be overcome, not through the use of drugs, but by keeping in harmony with nature. It is a distressing but an actual fact that a healthy child may be made a

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