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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

and they suggest the scope of metaphysical thought. Strictly speaking, the only satisfactory statement of the problems is the account of their evolution from the speculations of Thales to the latest researches of the followers of Hegel and the doctrine of evolution.¹

In the examination and statement of the great questions, the ideal of course is the development of a " philosophy without assumptions." Such a system might not at once appeal to the uneducated, for it would be the result of the most painstaking thought. But it should win the immediate assent of reason since, like the proposition, two and two are four, it would contain its own verification. That is, one would not need to look beyond the statements presented for their justification. It would be truly ultimate description such that every man, in his right mind, by taking four units would find their sum to be four. In other words, life critically and appreciatively observed would be found like the description of it.

That which would qualify anyone to accept such a statement as, two and two are four, would of course be a certain amount of experience in regard to other combinations of figures, and the conviction

(1) The reader is more likely to be interested at first in a statement of the modern problems as propounded by Royce (The Spirit of Modern Philosophy), Falckenberg (History of Modern Philosophy), Paulsen (Introduction to Philosophy), than in the larger histories by Erdman and Ueberweg, or a severely technical treatise like the Critique of Pure Reason or Appearance and Reality.

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