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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

assimilate from the Spirit, that he may be imbued afresh with that creative life whence springs all that is original and inspiring in the world. The spiritual method is thus confessedly an emulation of the divine method of creation.

The method of God, no far as we may read it in the inner history of man, is first the spirit, then the form; first the involution about which we hear no little, then the evolution about which we read so much. The highest human method is therefore adaptation to this progressive quickening of God, and harmony with its resultant unfolding. If the Spirit is constantly welling into consciousness through a new moment, the ideal is, of course, to penetrate as near as possible to the fountain head of the Spirit, fully and freely to voice that revelation even though its message differs from that of all previous experiences. It is this quickening, creative life which is the highest source of the originality for which we have contended in the foregoing chapter, the surest guide to genius, so far as the cultivation of genius comes within the province of self-consciousness.

It has been obvious throughout that the free expression of this spontaneous revelation is greatly hindered by formal plans, set programmes, and prearrangements. Ideally, both the speaker and the writer should be committed only to the Spirit.

At the risk of seeming to make common the sacred and poetical, I venture the suggestion that with this dedication of self to "the glory of the whole," one

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