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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

which makes each individual for ever and solely himself, is a distinctive point of view from which the entire universe is seen, a unique attitude toward life, a certain temperamental and peculiar method of experiencing and thinking, an intimately private freedom, and an emphatically personal mode of action. No one in the wide universe is the duplicate of another. No one can imitate, do the work of, or in reality interfere with another. When this combination was made, if it ever was made, the model was thrown away, and no possible attempt at recombining would ever bring about the same result.

When a man learns this greatest of facts in regard to his individual life he becomes centred, poised, and no longer fears defeat. Any threatened defeat now seems utterly absurd. He knows that he is grounded in the eternal constitution of things, inseparably a part of that Reality beyond which there is no other. He is superior to any misfortune, any calamity, or supposed enemy, either in space or time. Whatever happens, be it death itself, transportation to any part of the universe, or enforced sleep during a thousand years, will find him in equanimity, ready to discover its educational value.

It is therefore a part of the ministry of the Spirit for each man to consider in all confidence, yet in deepest humility and gratitude, the bearing of his individuality upon the work of the universe; for he can contribute nothing greater than that. He should regard himself as an organ of the whole,

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