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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

weakling, and taught to suffer the entire round of (unecessary) children's diseases, by watching every breath it draws, fearful lest a his of Nature's pure and healthy air come nigh. Happily, these absurd ideas are passing, and there are many mothers nowadays who permit their children to grow as Nature guides. But there is still great need of reform, that the entire thought for the child may be dedicated to health and not to disease. The mother's love is of itself sufficient to cure the child of most of its ills, if all her thinking is toward the perfect, in trustful co-operation with the Spirit, if she herself is poised and strong.

Again, in the later years, it is important to remember that there are certain evolutionary stages through which the child passes which are best dealt with by dwelling on the positive side. Every one of these disagreeable features may be loved into traits of beauty through fidelity to the ideal, in conformity with the laws of evolution.

Give the child the earliest possible opportunity to learn the law of cause and effect. Let it discover that as fire always burns, so you are always to be depended on if approached in a certain mood. Do not threaten beyond what you have the heart to carry out. Be consistent and orderly.

A little later, point out that the same law applies to our thoughts as well, and so teach the child to build ideals, that it may as soon as possible lay the foundations of self-help.
When the child evinces some knowledge of this

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