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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

individual ideas. No alleged enemy could possibly intrude on his truest rights, or deprive him of his real freedom. Every experience, without the least exception, must affect him according to his own, not another's, state of development and attitude towards it.

Consequently, there is no need of the barriers which the individual usually mars about himself. His one concern should be to fulfil his true function in relation to the whole, to be true to himself. His one standard should be, what is right or best for him as an organ of the whole the supreme guidance of the Spirit. All else should be subordinate to that. To be loyal to the whole, each man must have as profound first-hand knowledge of it as possible. For, remember, individuality is due to many-sided variety in unity. The individual is related to all that exists, personal experience wills which furnishes the occasion for self-manifestation. He must become truly universal, that he may give adequate expression to that in him which completes the universal.

No man can learn his true nature if he dwells alone, no man can learn it merely through contact with society, among his books, with nature, alone with God. He must learn it both within and without, through solitude and society, the head and the heart, even supplementing his days and months of diligent search for truth by days and months when he becomes passive and lets truth pursue him. Only by the balance, the mutual supplementation

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