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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

But if there be somewhat which demands expression, it will be aroused. And when the awakening comes, the years of practical experience which brought one in close contact with real life, with the wage-earning class and with the struggle for existence, will be of incalculable value. No experience is profitless when the soul comes to consciousness.

Yet I would emphasise the need of placing before every boy and girl those opportunities and books which are likely to call out the soul during those crucial years variously called "the age of conceit," "the age of reason," and "the soul's awakening." If the awakening soul is surrounded by idealising influences and given the right books, years of diffusion of force may be avoided. For if the taste for better things is then quickened, the mind is not likely to turn aside into morbid channels or the wiles and subtleties of baneful literature.

If may interest the reader to know what books brought the awakening in a given case. The instance is that of a young man who for years had no ambition beyond the business in which he was employed, where he hoped to attain the highest level, —an occupation totally at variance with all hereditary tendencies,— but who matured late and apparently suffered no serious loss. I will let him tell the story in his own words, as nearly as I can recollect them.

"I am amazed," said my friend, " when I recollect how ignorant I was during those business years of that which, according to Macaulay, ' every

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