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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

great privilege of the enlightened is to quicken to consciousness the spirit of freedom, the close relationship between soul and soul and the great Oversoul.

The supreme thought, then, worth more than all the other points in our argument, is the spiritual ideal, the possibility open before every human soul of becoming a function of the Spirit, a minister of that power and life, that peace and love which touches the hearts and feeds the souls of men. He that loses his merely individual life shall find it. The law of the Christ is the highest law of organic perfection, the Christ spirit made social is the supreme triumph of all the powers of evolution.

Education, viewed from the standpoint of organic perfection, thus leads to profound consideration of all aspects of ethical and social philosophy. It is the application in its noblest sense of the philosophical ideal. It is the fruition of the philosopher's broadest thought, quickened and carried forward by the spirit of love and sympathy. It applies to the whole of life, in its united sense, as the union of head and heart, the individual and society, working co-operatively to carry out the divine ideal. It applies to the passing details of life; it ends only with immortality. And so to the conception of immortality we must turn, with the hope that that, too, shall prove to be a part of our educational life, the fruition of our individual and collective ethical and spiritual freedom.

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