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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

willing to set apart many years for the solution of a single problem. His own eagerness would defeat his object if he permitted himself to hurry. When he is on the verge of a positive result, he must immediately call a halt by asking, Is there an alternative? Is there not some other may of regarding this question / Have I developed all the logical implications of my premises? Is my fundamental premise sound? Has a different point of view been maintained in the past?

The philosopher's method must therefore be its own corrective. Each advance should be accompanied by a corresponding development of scepticism. The latest conclusion must be as closely scrutinised as the first." Exposition is often imposition." One is likely to become unduly interested in endlessly subtle complexities, to maintain a certain point of view for mere argument's sake, or because it furnishes material for an essay. There is also danger that one may create unreal difficulties, or dwell at length on a mere lifeless abstraction, such as the "Unknowable," the "Ding-an-Sich." It is also easy to fall into anthropomorphism, to forget that, although the chief value of a system of philosophy is often the natural history of the intellect that develops and expounds it, the intellect may stand in its own light.

The world is slow to recognise the value of this philosophical sincerity and painstaking criticism. Usually it is misunderstood and condemned as negative or iconoclastic. As a rule, people care

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