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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 devotion. It is the making of many men and women; for no school or college pretends to make a boy or girl "good."

All explanations concerning the creative life should be made with that dedication of soul, that spirit of sacredness which lifts the whole subject to the spiritual plane, and creates an atmosphere, a quality of thought, always associated with the subject by the child. The foundations of spiritual marriage are laid when this touch of sacredness is imparted. It is a divine moment in the life of man. The explanation should, of course, be made in parts at different times, notably at about seven or eight and eleven or twelve, at which time the instruction should be complete and searching. But the essential thought should be implanted far earlier than this, when the child asks the first questions about its organism.

Do not be afraid to talk "over the head" of your little auditor. The child apprehends in its own way, and remembers even what it fails to understand. It is a very common mistake nowadays to simplify everything for children, to give them only infantile books. But our forefathers in the literary world had no such books. Consequently, they read the standard authors and poets even when they were mere boys. That they began very early to educate themselves, and to cultivate that fine literary sense which eventually became so strong that they never could have been induced to read the second-rate literature so widely circulated nowadays.

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