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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

than any other. Thus considered, immortality is the natural, one might almost say the inevitable, outcome of the righteous life. All evolution tends that way; that is, all evolution makes for righteousness. The universe is just. It grants an equal opportunity to each, and has placed every possible aid where man may voluntarily accept or reject it.

Immortality is thus a logical consequence, a necessity of the ethical life. Our entire argument for' organic social perfection fails unless it be clear that the compensations and opportunities of the future supplement the unjust and unequal conditions under which many spend every day and hour of this earth life. Unless a future life resolve all these differences the universe is unjust. Unless every individual some time come to consciousness of his organic place in the social cosmos and realise the ideals of service, our highest ideals are only myths; for our point of view is strictly universal, it acknowledges no partialities or subordinations.

The future life, then, will undoubtedly be the field in which the social problem will first be solved. But its solution on earth is the greater ideal, because it is undoubtedly far more difficult. The present social order is the chief centre of interest, and the thought of immortality is of great philosophical value only because it furnishes the ethical supplement needed to complete the organic limitations of our present existence.

But this is an old and familiar argument for immortality, that the moral order is imperfect without

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