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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

that reason is capable of discerning the meaning of experience and arriving at truth. If one is not yet convinced that the mind can reason correctly, it is futile to set forth even the most accurately logical deductions. When Xenophanes, for example, declares that the Best can only be One, he who is in possession of reason and the belief in its validity sees at once that this statement is universally and eternally true; otherwise language could have no definite meaning. It is the essence of the philosophical method to give unqualified assent to a proposition only when all propositions opposed to it are seen to be false. And a time comes in mental development when certain statements at once appeal to the mind as axiomatic. For example, the statement that a straight line is the shortest between two points.

The path of the philosopher is necessarily beset by every possible obstacle with which a human soul can contend yet achieve ultimate success. He most know error in all its forms, that he may by contrast know truth. He must have adequate knowledge of all classes of facts, so that severally and through their relations they shall be completely intelligible. Philosophy may therefore be defined as an adequate account of the nature of things in the light of their laws and their total relations, both the Being and the Becoming, the Real and the Apparent.

The philosopher is never in haste to arrive at decisions, He lives in eternity, not in time, and is

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