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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

be fatally maimed by the removal of God or man or nature, to would a minor whole be injured by robbing it of a part or function.

The glory and utility of any part, like the intellectual life, or the experiences known as pain and evil, consists in its organic limitations. An organ must stand for something definite, or it is neither beautiful nor useful. Viewed by itself, it may seem ugly; viewed in relation, when qualified, held in check and supplemented, it is inexpressibly beautiful.

A man may deem himself utterly unfit to live while he regards himself negatively, while he thinks of what he is not and what he cannot do. He may condemn himself for not being able to do what other men do. He may be constantly condemned by those who pretend to understand him, because he does not accomplish what they think he ought to accomplish. Out of his environment he may seem cold, sullen, and unsociable Put him in his environment, and he straightway becomes a god. That which seemed a hardship now proves to be a blessing, because it is seen in right relations. That which appeared to be a cruel and ugly limitation is now found to be the precise condition of organic productibility.

There is an incalculably valuable lesson in this discovery. Nine-tenths of all the negative criticism and self condemnation in the world would cease if this knowledge could become universal.

The necessity of organic limitation may be further illustrated by the nature and development of an idea.

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