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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

result. The law is as true as ever. The modified result springing from an intervening cause is an additional proof of it.

Cautious philosophical consistency therefore says: "This is truth for me to-day, but I may have more light to-morrow, in which case I shall doubtless be compelled to modify my views; for I value truth more than a fixed creed, or consistency purchased at the expense of progress. If it be a choice between consistency of statement and fidelity to truth, I choose the latter form of consistency."

Obey your rule where it applies, follow your logic as far as it specifically leads, but remember that all specific logic, every rule, is relative. When you reach a limit ask, What is next? What is needed to supply the deficiencies? If you find that a rule which, like " all is good," sets out to be moral and logically winks at immorality, is inadequate, seek the rule which modifies and supplements it. If you discover that a theory, like pantheism, logically and universally carried out denies existence to one half of life, seek the truth in it by comparison with other demands of reason and the heart, supply the missing half. If you find this chapter dry and technical, remember the more spiritual portions of our discussion, and so supplement intellect by the Spirit.

In the end, our philosophy must be broad enough to include and harmonise all inadequacies, seeming inconsistencies, and paradoxes. If they cannot as yet be united as one whole, they should be held in experimental solution. Empiricism, even the

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