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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

Without doubt, all the reform movements of the present time may be summed up under the head of one grand ideal, freedom. The higher socialism seeks to set free the masses, and grant them equality of privilege. Philanthropists are seeking to free mankind from bondage to vice with all the torments it brings. The advocates of liberal religion are working to emancipate man from superstition, dogmatism, intolerance, creed, and ritual. Woman is seeking to free her fellow-woman. The spiritual movement of the time is toward the freedom of the soul, liberty and equality of individuality; it is setting people free from doctors, medicines, diseases, and all the burdens of fear, ignorance of self, and mental servitude. And it is because of our belief in universal freedom that each of us has come here, where we have thrown aside the trammels of conventionality, to commune in entire liberty of spirit.

Let us consider to-day some of the reasons for believing in universal freedom before we ask how we may emancipate humanity. The idea of freedom, broadly conceived, is in itself a profound inspiration. Once set men to thinking about it, and you shall see abundant results. For the bondage of bondages is ignorance, lack of thought. Courage to think, willingness to think, lies at the foundation of all growth. And all that we need to do in order to see the results each of us desires coming swiftly to humanity is to stimulate philosophical thought. That is, I express it as my sincerest conviction that every man, if he takes thought, will turn his powers

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