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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

By teaching these and other idealistic verses, the complications of an outgrown theology¹ may be avoided.

Soon we most have Sunday-schools in keeping with these higher ideals, schools to which modern mothers may send their children without the consciousness that half the knowledge than gained must be "unlearned" at home. Such schools will be I based on nature studies, practical idealism, and a spiritual philosophy of life. They will supplement and be in harmony with the home teaching, and thus admirably carry forward the general work of spiritual education.

Under any conditions, the foundations of Sunday school instruction should be laid at home, and when the higher² Sunday-schools are founded they should be conducted in the father and mother spirit. Thus the home is the beginning of all branches of education, and the foregoing ideals, although applicable in a measure to the schools, are of primary value when made vital factors in the thought of the parents. I have considered these ideals in a brief, suggestive, and fragmentary way because they become than vitally instrumental only when the parents work out the principles for themselves.

¹ Do not, for example, use the terminology associated with the word "sin," but teach the child that its lower or animal nature is in process of growth. Let all instruction be idealistic. Let it all point forward.

² "Higher" because founded on the fact of the immanent Spirit, to which each soul may have immediate access, without the media of creeds, forms, and dogmas.

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