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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

own mind. Each of us has had experience, and that enough. The essential is to see it in right relations.

The utmost another mind may do for you is to narrate its experiences in the same search. And the reason why some have advanced an much beyond others is that instead of attending many lectures and reading many books, they have selected a few fundamental principles and thought upon them day and night to some individual philosophical conclusion. Such minds will give you in a few words the very essence of their system of practical metaphysics. For example, Jesus' saying, "Seek first the kingdom of heaven . . . and all these things shall be added unto you." If you understand and adopt this ideal, nothing more is needed but to live it.

One is constantly overwhelmed by the magnitude of one's task in the endeavour to grasp life's meaning. Yet, after all, it is the one task that calls out all that is in us. To know the goodness which dwells within, to live it in daily life, then rationalise it, this is the sum and substance of it all. A thousand theories of the universe may be formulated by as any minds; a thousand poets may sing of life as it appeals to them, and innumerable species, forms, forces, and substances may reveal the creative power. But there is only one object of it all, one source of it all, one Spirit imbuing it all. To know this Spirit in all the variety of life's changing experiences, this is the simplicity of thought. To

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