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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

It needs no further argument, then, to show that philosophy takes us into the wide world of the universal. Philosophical truth must fulfil all rational criteria, all demands which may be made upon it. It must not only explain life, or show conclusively why life cannot be explained, it must not only be consistent and meet both the demands of our inner nature and the rationalised data of physical sense, but be capable of practical application and have something to say concerning the future and the conception of immortality. As embracing not merely epistemology, cosmology, and psychology, but ethics and the bases of religion,' it must be a practical clue to the meaning of life for every individual. It ought to appeal both to the head and to the heart, telling me not only what is true, but what is beautiful and good.

Such is the ideal, and as high as it may be, it is evident that philosophical truth will never be found unless the demand for it be conscientiously rigorous. From this point of view, the objection to religious creeds and theories founded on insight alone, is the claim they make to have solved the riddle of the universe. If you raise intellectual objections they will either assure you that these things cannot be understood by the reason, and therefore the intellect is forever inferior, or they will dismiss the whole problem by some dogmatic reply. Their

(1) It is clear from the arguments of Professor Royce in The World and the Individual that theology must henceforth rest on a metaphysical conception of Reality.

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