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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

of adoring God. We most learn to detach ourselves from all that is capable of being lost, to bind ourselves absolutely only to what is absolute and eternal, and to enjoy the rest as a loan, a usufruct. . . . Let come what will— even death. Only be at peace with self, live in the presence of God, in communion with him, and leave the guidance of existence to those universal powers against whom thou canst do nothing! If death gives me time so much the better. If its summons is near, so much the better still; if a halt-death overtake me, still no much the better, for so the path of success is closed to me only that I may find opening before me the path of heroism, of moral greatness and resignation. Every life has its potentiality of greatness, and as it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in him."

In fine, then, the philosophical attitude is notable for two striking characteristics. The philosopher is free, unattached, ready to move from place to place wherever truth may lead and without regard to predilections, personal desires and doctrines; and he is a critic. No one must be as free, yet no one must be so persistently, fundamentally critical. He must he the sceptic of sceptics, discovering the errors, illusions, and subtleties which escape all other men. It is not for him to rest in settled convictions, one in the belief that existence is an enigma. He must be continually investigating until he at least finds out what may be known and what cannot be known. He must move forward with evolution, yet see to it

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