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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

on self-knowledge and self-mastery, there must be discipline of all the tendencies in body and mind. The scholar who is still in subjection to tobacco is not fully a scholar. The teacher who is not master of his appetites is not yet worthy of imitation. Man is not half-trained if he lacks that health which freedom from vice, crowned by the attainment of all-round self-possession, alone can give. And the higher ideal which I am now suggesting does not even begin to be realised until' this purity of life, this freedom from stimulants, vices, and the habits of the merely intellectual man, becomes the foremost characteristic of daily life.

All the training one may possibly have, all the intellect, all the talent, the self-knowledge, the technical skill, all the self-conscious powers one may possess, are secondary to that grander purpose to which these must be consecrated if one desires to be truly an artist, truly an orator or musician. It is as if, having spent years and years in training the organism one should say, in all humility, "I dedicate myself to thee, 0 Spirit, whence springs all life and power; do with them, do with me, what thou wilt. Henceforth I will live and think for the glory of the whole, for the beauty and grandeur of the great universal."

Thus does the true artist, the real lover of truth, beauty, and virtue, consecrate himself that he may become an instrument of divine revelation. He seeks oneness with that invisible presence which ever surrounds the soul, that he may first of all

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