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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

there can be no activity of the particular type in question from which we can escape a certain result; that consequently we most hold ourselves responsible.

The mind reaches this definite, practical conclusion by holding the thought in one direction until it grasps certain relationship. as seen from one point only. The definite process of thought is possible only through exclusion and subordination. It most that out other implications, even at the risk of doing them injustice, until it grasps the full significance of this. Thus a definite conscious process is the discovery of a particular series of relations, just as the description of a tree is possible only by giving an account of its environment, the surrounding earth in which it is embedded, the atmosphere which plays upon it, the power of gravity which holds it in place and maintains its shape, the sunlight without which its life and growth are impossible.

Here is a very important point. One cannot describe an object in nature, or even the vaguest fancy which a mind ever conceived, as an object apart, unrelated. The central thought which the mind selects for temporary consideration, to the exclusion of all others, is as nearly independent as anything can be. Yet it is a central thought only because there are grouped about it many other thoughts which throw light upon it. And the most abstract law which the mind can formulate, the most metaphysically abstruse doctrine, is made such only by contrast and comparison with the concrete world

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