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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

Granting that the world-plan includes the solution of the social question, the total organism seems to be perfect, wholly beautiful, good, and just. One would like to say, it is perfect. But, as we have already noted in the preceding chapter, adequate knowledge is possible only when a thing is done. The utmost we can say is that, although we have no absolute standard of comparison, the universe probably could not be better than it is.

An ideally perfect adjustment of all means to the highest possible end, signifies not only that the nature, place, and meaning of any part, however small, is to be understood only in the light of its temporary relation to the perfect whole at any given moment, but that it is also to be seen through the perspective of eternity. It means that as all organs, functions, and individuals are regarded from the point of view of their progressive fitness as members of a whole whose perfection can be attained only through entire eternity, many of these ideals are likely to be misunderstood if regarded only from the standpoint of time, or when viewed by those who are ignorant of the profound significance of organic perfection. Just as an organ or function is insignificant by itself, so that which seems ugly or evil when erroneously regarded by itself, in relation to its immediate temporal environment, instead of in the light of its meaning for the progressing whole, may appear beautiful and good when viewed in its total eternal, therefore in its true, relation. The perspective of eternity is thus the only one

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