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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

in the higher direction, for humanity instead of for self; that no man is at heart perverse.

As we look over these smiling fields and once more ask ourselves the great question of the ages, Whence came we and why are we here? we realise that there are many of us, that the earth is large, and the answer most be broad and inclusive. I cannot say, as I ask the great question, that the earth is mine, because I am not the first occupant here. I may strive with my brother, and imprison him; but the fact remains that he has as good a right as I to enjoy the earth and to ask the great question. The fact even that the few have for ages made war upon the many and enslaved them does not alter the eternal fact that the earth, by virtue of our co-existence, is the home of all, the property of all, and that no company of men can rightfully exclude other men from its privileges.

Approaching the problem from the universal point of view, therefore, it is evident that every man, woman, and child has a right to life, the use of the land and that which sustains life. No man, no trust, no state, no nation, has a right to deprive was of life, liberty, or that which is necessary for the sustenance of life. The land and its products are not and cannot in deepest truth become the property of the few.

No was has a right to hold slaves.

No parent owns a child.

No husband owns a wife.

Every man, woman, and child, of whatever nation

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