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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

A kindergarten teacher recently related the following effective incident. The children had been watching the growth of bulbs in the school, and when, a short time after, one of the little ones passed into the spiritual world,ne the teacher turned the entire thought away from death by teaching them to say in concert "Life goes on for ever." When, a few days later, a little boy spoke of their companion as "dead," a little girl immediately corrected him by saying, "Oh, no; life goes on for ever." The teacher expressed the belief that the ideal was so firmly implanted by this incident that it would never be forgotten.

The explanation of the law of growth is naturally supplemented by the great thought that behind all there is one Life, which awakens the world of vegetation in the spring, quickens the animal world, and brings us all into physical being. Thus the child may be given his first idea of the Father, as the logical outcome of the foregoing explanations. In this way the thought of the divine becomes a natural evolution, and the parents need have no fear that the young mind will later be won over by the enticements of the old theology. Years of unlearning, of ridding the mind of" lumber," as one victim expressed it, may thus be avoided.

In order to answer all the questions a child may ask when these great thoughts are imparted—and this is very essential—it is best to prepare one's self in advance.

"Do you happen to know how God came to be

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