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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

of all experiences and all thoughts, in all environments, seen in all possible perspectives, through all that is in him, may he hope to attain either adequacy of self-knowledge, or adequacy of self-expression through service.

For, as we have repeatedly noted, he can grasp only one idea or experience at a time. Now he must give play to his spiritual nature, and now subject his thought to the most rigidly sceptical criteria of truth. Now he must seek solitude, and now society. Only the well-balanced man is truly spiritual, profoundly philosophical, or thoroughly educated.

The history of man's development, his attempts to achieve perfection through hermit methods and exclusive creeds, proves by contrast the need of many-sidedness, beauty, rounded completion, as the only pathway to that fulness of soul-expression in which his organic utility consists. The very attempt to attain "liberation" by ascetic and egoistic methods shows how intimately man is related to all that exists, to how slight a degree he is independent.

The many-sidedness of individual consciousness is also an illustration of the organic character of our existence.

Since the days of Descartes, it has been customary to begin all philosophical inquiry with consciousness as the basic fact, the surest datum of experience; and this has practically meant your consciousness or mine. As you look within, now, and as I also introspect, no fact proves more fundamental. Yet

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