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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

essential to the whole, so placed that there is abundant power and wisdom to enable him to accomplish his work.

He is to be concerned solely with the regulation of his own attitude, the doing of his own work; never with the regulation of the attitudes or activities of others. As we have repeatedly shown, no man can know what another individual ought to do. That knowledge is attainable by one soul alone.

Yet the discovery of the organic meaning of individuality is a means to the greater end, organic service. Although the individual should not dictate, every experience which comes into his life should have meaning for him in relation to his work for the world. It should help to put him in right social relations, that he may the more fully express the " constructive individuality " which is the highest ideal of education.

True knowledge of individuality, as we have already shown, not only does not lead to mere individualism, but indicates that there most be radical reform in current individualistic tendencies.

Previous to the discovery of man's true place in life he is cast about by circumstance; he is burdened with fear, is passionate, resentful, jealous, self-protective, intolerant, exclusive; in a word, selfish. When he knows himself as only he can know, he learns that these selfish attitudes are utterly foolish expenditures of force. For no one can really injure him. No one can pilfer his true wealth. The cleverest imitator could never borrow his most

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