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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

Thus the child may very early grasp the thought that there is a power in us which is superior to, and can not only control but transmute the little animal impulses. Many times this great principle may be enforced by meeting the child in unusual gentleness and love, if it chances to rush into the house in the opposite mood. The power of example, thus enforced, will in due time become first the ideal, then the habit, of the child.¹

In this way, preparation may be made years before for the me strenuous years from twelve or thirteen to seventeen. The young mind will have acquired as a habit the power of turning its attention in a higher creative direction. It will know that ideas and ideals have life and grow like seeds in the subconscious mind, that if the thought is pure and the ideals high, the mind is fortified against the severest temptations and influences.

With this creative work in view, it is wise to encourage the experimental spirit as early as possible. Study the child's tastes and tendencies and give it tools and materials wherewith to express its original ideas. Thus the child will early discover the resources of the inner world and learn to draw upon them more and more.

If the start is right, if the home ideals are high, the outcome is assured. The higher may be severely

(1) In a recent discourse in Boston, Mozoomdar, the great Hindu religious teacher, summed up the whole of morality in childhood by saying, "Teach children first self control; teach them, secondly, the doing of good deeds to others."

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