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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

by the same theory. Fresh investigation must accompany every new experience. The number of possibilities is enormously large. We may think we possess the truth, when there are a thousand aspects of the case which we have never considered.

The history of thought shows that doubt has played as important a part in the development of exact philosophy as belief itself. Indeed, thorough. going philosophy began when men began to doubt. The majority are credulous: it is doubt which guards the main pathway to truth. What is most needed, especially in the pulpit, is frankness, a sincere confession of opinion. Instead, we have hundreds of ministers who are preaching one set of ideas and believing another. Why not come out and confess that one no longer believes the old theology, that philosophical doubts are too strong Surely there is rich compensation in the adoption of the experimental point of view, and the discovery of the deep significance of natural evolution.

But, if you expose your doubts in public, you may create doubters. What of that I Doubt implies that one is dissatisfied and is in search of a larger philosophy. Progress begins when men begin to doubt conventional standards and to launch out for themselves. Pushed far enough, doubt leads to deeper and broader conviction. The great men of science are those who, like Darwin, were not convinced until they were compelled by an enormous accumulation of evidence. The science of evolution has advanced year by year, since the publication of

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