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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

illustration. The death of the father, which compels a boy or girl to leave an ideal situation for one that is more remunerative is, as everybody knows, oftentimes the making of a man or woman.

Again, there are situations like this. A young man enters the newspaper business and gradually rises to the position of business manager. The subscription list is placed in his care. He counts the names and also learns the actual number of papers printed per week—less than one half the boasted circulation! He complains to the proprietor, and is told that a paper which does not keep up with the deceits of its contemporaries will be left behind in the race. The young man finds it easier and easier to deceive until he reaches a point where he knows that he will soon deceive unconsciously. What shall he do—permit prevarication and commercialism to become second nature, or resign, foregoing a large salary? The decision comes quickly if he thinks, unless—terrible thought!— it means starvation for wife or mother.

Thus practical life may be trusted to provide man-making opportunities. In school or out, no one can escape these. As one looks back upon deprivations which seemed hard at the time, and upon disappointments which Were almost unbearable, one sees that a Wisdom has presided over events in a marvellous way.

It may seem a long break from systematic study to omit the high school, and many will question whether the taste for learning will ever be quickened.

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