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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

system. Every art, every branch of human activity, must have its tools to work with, and the majority are content to take things as they are without tracing out these implications and assumptions to their ultimate foundation.

Philosophy begins where human thought in general rests content, and is primarily concerned with that which lies beyond, with the ultimate origin, nature, and destiny of the universe. It asks questions which seem absurd at first sight, but which prove to be the profoundest of all problems, namely, Are these postulates rightfully assumed Is it true that an external world exists Is there really a self or soul capable of exerting free will? Are there other selves? Is there in truth a God, a world system, goodness, beauty? If so, what is the meaning of it all? How came it to be, and whither is it tending? In short, the philosopher questions and examines every fact, asking not only if it is a fact, if we really know it, but how we know it, and why we know it, and if it may be rationally doubted.

The great philosophers seem to possess an instinct for the perception of life's goodness and meaning, as though there were some door left open to them which is closed to other men. They seem to be in immediate touch with the essence of life, in divine communion, as though in their inmost hearts they knew life's entire secret. It is true, all fail in the statement of what they perceive. Although progress is constantly being made, there is not a philosophical system, from the earliest attempts in

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