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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

refutation of all systems of subjectivism, mysticism, and the like. And thus the deepest, subtlest, and most troublesome stronghold of egoism is removed. The finite self is in truth nothing without consciousness, but in this one fact resides all the evidence needed to develop a philosophy of organic human society.

Without attempting to develop all the logical steps, let us simply note that the most suggestive series of relationships which make consciousness possible is the social series. The very dawning of self-consciousness in infancy is closely associated with the discovery that other selves exist. The individual activity of the soul is, of course, the dynamic factor of prime consequence. Without the brooding presence of the Spirit no consciousness is possible. Yet it is the social factor which furnishes the occasion, and thus lays the foundation of that great indebtedness which every human soul owes to mother, father, and the host of associates with whose co-operation all its habits are acquired, the relation of objects in the surrounding environment is learned, language is received as a gift from thousands and millions of ancestors, and all the foundations are laid for its future education, social life, and individual experience. The psychological, social, and ethical relations and obligations are so many and no great that the mind is overwhelmed by them. But it is important to take ample time to think them out because of the tremendous indebtedness which the soul is under. The majority

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