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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 men require all possible spurs to righteousness, and no kind of philosophising leads more directly from egoism to altruism than thought about these intimate relationships without which one's existence as an organism amidst organisms is impossible. It leads the mind instinctively to the glad hope that a day may come when all men shall awaken to the beauties and opportunities of our mutual existence as one great social organism.

Apply the thought to your own life, for a moment, and recollect your relationship to parents, grandparents, and past generations; to teachers, books, friends, associates, possibly to wife or husband and children, to say nothing of your relationships with thousands whom you do not know and may never see, who labour to produce the commodities of life, and all that makes existence productively and pleasurably possible for you.

Consider, too, the inferior condition in which the majority of people are held through ignorance, selfishness, and grinding oppression. Consider by contrast the eternal principles of liberty, equality and freedom which we have dwelt upon in another chapter. All are equal before the eternal law. Spiritually speaking, each is directly, organically related to the Father, the only inequality being the difference in spiritual enlightenment and receptivity. Each may draw upon that source to make the ideal real. Yet each is dependent upon all, and all most know the truths of organic perfection before freedom shall become universal. Consequently, the

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