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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

things we see, these pains we suffer, and these joys that lift us to a higher plane, there is a Reality that abides, an Intelligence which directs, a Being which animates.

n one sense, all men are philosophers, for all have learned to avoid illusion; most of an believe there is a power behind phenomena, and we have all treasured up bits of philosophic wisdom gleaned from experience. Yet we find it difficult to give reasons for the faith that is in us. The philosopher gives his life to the search for reasons. And if a philosopher finally becomes an idealist, it is not because he wants to believe that ideas are more enduring than things, but because reason itself has convinced him of it.

Exact philosophy is than more fundamental than the doctrines which usually pass current as creeds and theological systems. The old theology, for example, made certain assumptions concerning God as creator, outside of the world; his incarnation as " the only begotten son "; as composed of three persons in one; as demanding a propitiatory sacrifice; but it did not ask how these things could be. The history of thought shows that the moment men began seriously to ask, How t the power of these dogmas began to wane.

Again, popular optimism and pessimism are unconcerned with fundamental problems. In the one attitude, a man assumes that this is the best of possible worlds, in the other that it is the worst. But Sully points out, in his masterly refutation of the

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