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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

some preconceived theory, but willingly sacrifice the theory.

Avoid the confusion of your point of view with the fact which you wish to interpret.

"Unless you refute your opponent at his best you are refuted by him."

Understand clearly that the materialist, the idealist, the theologian, and the man of science mean one and the same Substance, the Spirit, the Life of all, whether they term it matter, " Infinite Self," "God," or " force," and you will no longer be intolerantly troubled by the divergence of their opinions, but seek the truth in all.

Professor Lovering once said that the reason why people no longer believe the corpuscular theory is because those who held it have died off. A suggestive remark.

Suppose a man living in the tenth century were to say to another, " I know the earth is the centre of the universe." He might feel perfectly sure he was right, for the reason that he was not yet open to a wider view. Many love hypothesis rather than truth, because truth is so far beyond them. If the intuition of one age becomes the reason of the next, and the superstition of the third, then either it was not genuine intuition, or it was only a partial statement of truth. It follows that either our intuitions are not intuitions at all, and we are not able to distinguish between inclination, theory, reason, and insight, or they are glimpses of truth through the thick veil of ignorance.

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