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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

of warm, loving, and tender beings and things which furnishes the substance of all our thinking.

The mind could not formulate a law unless there were uniformly functioning forces to describe. These could not be regular functioning forces unless there were something upon which they could act. One force alone is inconceivable force is known only in relation to resistance, to opposing forces. One substance alone is as inconceivable as one colour, one sound, one man or woman. All these are known only by contrast, in relation; in other words, organically.

Even God is known only through what he does, what he is in respect to the world which manifests his wisdom and power and beauty. Ignorance of this obvious fact is responsible for all the extra natural deities, "Absolutes" and artificial realities with which the growth of philosophical thought has been encumbered.

Love is a relation; it is impossible alone. Wisdom is due to concrete experience; it is not abstract. Beauty is a relation in which things are beheld. An emotion is a state felt in regard to somewhat; the mind is incapable of feeling without something to feel. And so one might exhaust the universe and fail to find a concept small or great which has any intelligibility apart from relation; and relation is of course possible only through different organs whose qualities are variously associated.

In the ethical realm, duty is a meaningless term without the relationship of the one who imposes the

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