Divine Library is a free online public library that includes free eBook downloads and free audio books.

We work with New Thought Seekers and Sharers around the world insuring that all New Thought Texts in the Public Domain are available for you to read on the web for free, forever!

"Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit."
~ 2 Corinthians 2:17

Navigate through this book by clicking Next Page or Previous Page below the text of the page & jump directly to chapters using the chapter numbers above the text.

Horatio Dresser was a major early New Thought author

Serving New Thought is pleased to present

Horatio W. Dresser's

Education and the Philosophical Ideal

"Evolution is better than Revolution. New Thought Library's New Thought Archives encompass a full range of New Thought from Abrahamic to Vedic. New Thought literature reflects the ongoing evolution of human thought. New Thought's unique inclusion of science, art and philosophy presents a dramatic contrast with the magical thinking of decadent religions that promulgate supersticions standing in the way of progress to shared peace and prosperity." ~ Avalon de Rossett

Your PayPal contributions insure this gift lasts forever. Please consider an ongoing PayPal subscription.


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


literally unlimited, and always progressive. It is human, sympathetic, appealing; it aspires even to fellowship with God. It pays the highest price for virtue, yet is not ashamed to be seen with the sinner, and is as much at home among the lowly as in the proudest gatherings of society's idols.

Perhaps the easiest approach to the general point of view of philosophy is by the statement that a metaphysic, or theory of first principles, is involved in every word we utter, in every action, in every thought; for all our acts imply certain assumptions or beliefs in regard to the world. For example, philosophy supplies education with its experimental ideal. The statement that all life is educational involves an entire philosophical system. We have an illustration of a philosophical attitude in the foregoing chapter, where philosophy rationalises the existence of pain and evil. Thus every general statement about life involves the essential principle of a world-system. We proceed on the hypothesis that an external world exists, that it is real or that it is good. We believe that other beings besides ourselves exist, and we believe ourselves capable of effecting changes in the world; for experience has taught us to respect the universe as superior to our wills, yet in a measure responsive to them. All science is based upon such assumptions as these; that is, science begins by describing forces and substances, beings and things; it asserts that we have but to open our eyes in order to behold a world of living organisms, evolution, dissolution, order, law,

page scan

154


PREVIOUS PAGE - NEXT PAGE

Support New Thought Library so that we can continue our work 
of putting all public domain New Thought texts at your fingertips for free!