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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

indulging in acts involving a belief or disbelief in some of the unknowables he had solemnly forsworn."¹

"Beliefs are rules for action," says Professor James,² "and the whole function of thinking is but one step in the production of habits of action. . . . What exact thing do you practically mean by 'One,' when you call the universe One? is the first question you most ask. In what ways does the oneness come home to your own personal life How can you act differently toward a universe which is one?"

The answer to this question we have been considering throughout these pages. It is the fully educated, spiritual, social life, of equanimity yet of service, of self-control yet of self-expression, which is the real justification of a profound belief in life's unity. On the other hand, it is just this richly practical life which furnishes the choicest data of progressively constructive philosophy.

All this, you say, presupposes much knowledge, and implies that one is deeply in earnest, willing to work long and patiently, and that one already possess a general knowledge of philosophic thought. Yet the whole matter is surprisingly simple. In each of us is the clue to life's profoundest mystery. That which we seek to know is not something outside of us. No power can come to us from without and declare the truth. It must be perceived in one's

(1) Riddles of the Sphinx
(2) Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results

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