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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

Make notes of ideas at once, even if important matters most be put aside until you register your impression. Ideas are more important than things, and it is worth while to secure them as they pass. Our impressions are most valuable when they are most vivid.

Do not write too long at a time. Discover your best hours for work, and permit no serious interruption. But devote the remainder of the day to other interests, to books, people, and out-of-door exercise. The morning hours are probably the sanest hours for literary work. Many find them the hours when one may work with least fatigue. But the inspiration for the morning's work often comes the evening before.

Stop when you come to the end, and do not spin out to fill space. Anti-climaxes should not see the light in print. Do not pad or permit redundancies to pass. Remember that thousands of authors write verbosely, but only a few as Emerson wrote. It is well to choose Emerson as a model of style, in connection with careful reading of authors who, like Lowell or Addison, wrote a fuller style. James Martineau is a master of smooth-flowing style. His sentences are artistic marvels, very suggestive from the point of view of choice and variety of words. It is advisable also to read the great poets, both as masters of brevity and in order to enlarge one's vocabulary.

Spare no pains to attain a good style. It is worth all time spent upon them to polish one's manuscripts

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