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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

overlooks ethical distinctions and the ultimate significance of individuality.

In India, philosophy has always been inseparable from religion, and has lacked that "critical consideration of reason by itself," which, as Windleband tells us, is the very essence of philosophy as defined by Kant. It has always delighted in just those explanations (which, like Maya, do not explain) which the Western thinker seeks to eliminate. While, therefore, Oriental contemplation has a lesson to teach, it is sure never to satisfy the demands of Occidental reason.

Agnosticism is only a halting-place in philosophy: it satisfies neither the head nor the heart. No lover of philosophic wisdom is likely to rest content with the mere, unresolved data of the special sciences. And theology has long ago forfeited its right to furnish a criterion.¹

"The unanimous consensus of the competent" has been strongly urged as the necessary criterion,' and doubtless this is the criterion of the special sciences. It is very generally recognised that an observer must not rest content with his own experiments and conclusions alone, but submit them to comparative tests. But when it comes to philosophy, Who is to decide upon the competent? That which is undesirable in a special science, namely, individual

(1) 'For an able discussion of other criteria, see Professor James,
The Will M Believe, pp. 63-110.
(2) F. E. Abbot, Scientific Theism, 1888 The Way Out of Agnosticism, 1890. Little, Broom, & Co., Boston.

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