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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

India to the Spencerian philosophy of evolution to-day, which satisfies the human mind; nor do all of these together, our all the bibles of the world in addition, meet our full demand. Yet imperfect as their statements may be, one feels that many philosophers have really had the holy vision. Nature speaks to us in just such language as this, and it would be profane if one could translate it literally. The greatest philosopher is he who can quicken this instinct for the wholeness, the fulness of things, and at the same time be accurate in statement. Many may feel life's spirit, many can state bare facts, but it is only the few who are equally true both to feeling and thought, and their relations. The philosopher, therefore, in order to reduce all beliefs, assumptions, and visions to their ultimate theories of life, must of necessity be the fairest, the broadest, and most fundamental thinker. He cannot, like other people, belong to sects, organisations, and schools, so far as these place restrictions on a person, but must be impartial, impersonal, and free. He cannot, for example, be a mere socialist, a more politician or historian. Yet no one must understand socialism, politics and history better than he. He must not rest content with the surfaces of things, but must ever ask, What is real, what is enduring, what does it mean?

This, in a word, is the very essence of philosophy, namely, the belief that there is something besides appearances; that beneath, above, beyond all this that passes, above, behind, yet revealed in these

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