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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

A universe without this kind messenger of harmony and love would be utterly cruel and contemptible. Nothing in life is more directly meant for man's good and man's education, yet nothing has been more persistently misunderstood.

Could any arrangement be wiser than to have pain increase to the degree that man permits his attention to become absorbed by it, in so for as he opposes it, puts drugs or other obstructions in its way, or persists in his sensuous and other excesses? Does anything in life more plainly tracts its lesson than this appealing, beneficent guardian, pointing out to an that all his diseases and moral struggles are the fruits of his own misconduct and his own ill-adjusted life?

Yet why should the warning be painful some one asks. Because man would not give sufficient heed unless it were. Why, then, was not man born with a greater sense of responsibility? Because responsibility, like everything else, is appreciated only through gradual evolution; it is a. result of the profound discovery of our relative dependence on each other, and the tremendous importance of our individual acts.

Since all virtues, all wisdom, health, and all noble attainments are possible only through relativity, evolution, and contrast, the fundamental issue is this: Why is man subject to these laws? Because he is limited in power and capability, and can only acquire bit by bit. If, finally, the sceptic asks, Why is man thus limited? the only answer is that

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