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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

buffeted at times, but it will always conquer. The essential is to believe in the soul, to call out the soul, to hold to the ideal, then to supply the necessary implements, the right environment, and give proper encouragement at those plastic times when the young life is most receptive and apt.

There is a happy medium between believing your child a genius and pushing it aside to depend on its own resources. First of all, believe in your child, judiciously encourage and sympathise with it, but do not forget that training of some sort is equally essential. Give it enough difficulties to encounter so that it may learn all the lessons of individual experiment, and acquire all the strength and skill of personal mastery. If you listen to your boy or girl as to a prophet, you will surely defeat all the purposes of the spiritual ideal. The wiser way is to hold that confidence which is ever encouragement, without any of that worship which is a source of unproductive precociousness and self-conceit. Whether you are a parent or a teacher, regard the child as a human being, a new individual, a soul equal, and your companionship is sure to be mutually helpful.

There is also a mean between the two extremes of over-training and the neglect of which many modern parents are guilty who have reacted too far from all educational methods. A boy is not an animal, nor is he a picture to be painted. If the little ones become the masters, the household loses its equilibrium. On the contrary, if the elders

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