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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

sense only on condition that these successive displays of the infinite grandeur never cease.

It is obviously matter of opinion whether the total universe reveals progress. We call it progress, in our finite speech. We even speak of God as "progressing," and doubtless he is, in a sense, if the spiritually creative, ethically free republic of human souls contribute their share of fresh experiences. But this alleged progress might prove to be only an endless series of variations played upon the great harp of life by means of notes whose essential number is eternally the same. In this way the conservation of energy would be maintained, yet there would be endless room for experiment, for the production of novelties unknown even to the Father who, if he foreknew all possible combinations and decreed their number for all time, would have nothing to gain from organic self-manifestation; and this absolute foreordination would make ethical freedom and individual creativeness utterly impossible.

The independence and beauty of the part must not then be lost in overruled, or absorbed by the whole. It adds its fullest measure of beauty and productiveness to the whole only by being of relative worth in itself. For I am not arguing that it is right for a part insubordinately to suffer that the whole may be glorified. That would be applying to the universe the demand of the modern capitalist that the labourer shall be a degraded cog in an economic machine, in order that the ideals of the trust may be realised.

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