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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

facts in the unity of an intelligible system," says F. E. Abbot. It is (1) sceptical, as defined by Bradley¹: "I understand by it to become aware of and to doubt all preconceptions"; (2) constructive, as defined by James Martineau ²: "Systems of philosophical opinion grow from the mind's instinctive effort to unify by sufficient reason, and justify by intelligible pleas, its deepest affections and admirations "; and (3) ultimate, as defined in a recent lecture by Professor Ladd of Yale: "There are three kinds of knowledge; that of the practical kind, which distinguishes men from fools, the knowledge of common sense; and there is scientific knowledge, although this cannot be divided in a hard and fast way, since the every-day knowledge of our time was once scientific knowledge. These two kinds, some people think, are the only kinds of knowledge, but the human kind is not and never has been satisfied with these two alone. Philosophy is older than science, and is more fundamental. The scientist himself must make this leap beyond science, or he does not know what is real. That he must make assumptions is proved by Huxley himself, who on one page was an uncritical realist, on the next an agnostic, and on another a Berkleyan idealist. There is a natural craving for a kind of certainty which goes beyond scientific certainty. Teachers of the physical sciences are not capable of satisfying this craving. Ask the astronomer who observes things in space

(1) Appearance and Reality.
(2) Types of Ethical Theory. Macmillan, & Co., 1891.

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