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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

possible both for us to exist and to adjust ourselves to one another. The profoundest aspect of the universe, viewed as a progressive process, is the continuously self-communicating Spirit, active through all eternity, yet carrying forward the detailed life which alone makes possible the adjustment of all means to ends with the perfection of the whole in view. Practically, then, Spirit must be regarded as progressing, if not progressive, and the individual should adjust himself to the perpetually advancing life within all evolution.

No part can lie outside of the divine activity to which all beings are organically related, since it might then function against, not for, the whole. It follows that no man, no state, no nation, however powerful, can ever permanently injure the universe. All relative injuries to the social cosmos are, as we have seen in Chapter VIII., due to man's ignorance, to temporary slavery and the infliction of slavery. So far as tendencies in the natural or social cosmos are permitted to go off on tangents, it is because the experience thus gained can be turned to creative account by the Organ of organs whose function it is both to carry forward and perfect, and to maintain the equilibrium of the universe.

Man is thus made aware of his limitations by the sharp reactions which follow all excesses. All life, all education is a discovery of those inevitable conditions with which, as Emerson tells us, the universe is invested, but which "the unwise seek to dodge." Educational experiment followed by philosophical

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