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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

attended school but four years, I did not spend a day in a high or preparatory school, and five years of business experience came before I entered college at twenty-four. And so, having wholly avoided the pressure system, my experiment may serve either to point out the way in which danger lies, or be an illumination to those similarly placed, as the individual may decide.

For those who can bear it, there may be nothing better than the strenuously thorough training of the German gymnasium, and in the case of Professor Munsterberg, its latest and ablest champion,¹ this system seems to have presented no obstacles. But the crucial question is, Do we wish to evolve only German scientists? Is a man likely to become original, spiritual, creative, under this process? If not, we must have a wholly different environment to meet a totally different demand.

Moreover, the number of " misfits " is increasing, those who, sensitively organised, extremely nervous or introspective, do not thrive in any school. There are any whose health will not permit such strenuous work; this is especially the case with tall boys who grow very rapidly between the ages of fourteen and sixteen. In these cases, the only alternative, of course, is to instruct the children at home for a time, then give them such schooling at intervals as can be borne without detriment, supplemented by physical culture, manual training, or the learning of

(1) See the Atlantic Monthly, May. 1900. Professor Munsterberg's strongest point is his plea for better-trained teachers.

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