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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

It is undoubtedly true that he who writes well must write much. The young writer should not be discouraged if all of his earliest productions find their way into the waste-basket. There must be a survival of the fittest in the literary world; and, if many notes and essays are destroyed before anyone but their author has read them, they will at least serve their purpose as practice work.

It is well, even after college days, to keep a journal in which notes on a great variety of subjects may be made. If the notes are of no apparent value at the time, a time may come when they will fit in admirably with later thoughts. Notes made at intervals of many months or years are found to belong together, and those whose minds work inductively will often discover unexpected wealth in this accumulated material. It is frequently the latest and profoundest thought which unifies all the rest.

All manuscripts should be put away to "season."¹ After a few weeks or months have elapsed, the mind will readily see what to add and what to strike out, what is written in the Spirit and what is not. Emerson is reported to have said that the secret of his style was "striking out." One does not like to sacrifice fine-sounding phrases immediately after they are written. But, when the pen has cooled, on courage is stronger.

The best writing is sometimes that which is most

(1) Tennyson is said to have put some of his poems aside for ten years of seasoning.

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