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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

In the world of music, for example, there are those who merely teach technique, whose performances are marvels of technical skill, and those, on the other hand, who play and sing from the soul. One cannot tell definitely what is lacking in the former class. But there is a quality which they do not possess. And so with all the technique which the talented can command there is absent that subtle somewhat without which music is scarcely musical.

In the intellectual world the contrast is equally striking. The educated man is, of course, eager to add to the sum of human knowledge, to make new inventions and discoveries. All this is legitimate, and there must be manual and intellectual training to meet these demands. Ina certain sense education, strictly so-called, will always be intellectual. I am not pleading for a setting aside of these practical demands, nor am I asking that schools and colleges become the leading centres of religion. The plea is rather for the purification and enlargement of these purposes and methods, that they may he thoroughly in keeping with the ideals of the Spirit.

Yet what avails the intellect without that training which, supplementing it, makes all technical power the instrument of the higher self? The training of the intellect is, as we have noted again and again, but one among many kinds of discipline, all of which most have proper consideration. Since education is the development of all the powers for the purposes of adequate self-expression, since it is based

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