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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

and development, when new discoveries are made more rapidly than even the scholar can take cognisance of them, there is special need for the reconstruction of all theories of education. Many important discoveries have been made of which education has not taken proper account. This is due to the fact that the world in general has not given these discoveries the recognition which they deserve, and because education is still largely in subjection to influences which have not yet responded to the most advanced thought of our time.

I refer not merely to the contributions of evolution, as already considered, but to discoveries in regard to the higher or spiritual nature of man, studies which, because of their deep significance, demand a reformation in any of our standards. Historically speaking, these discoveries, like those of scientific evolutionists, are not wholly new. They date far back to ancient India; they were made and remade in Palestine; there have been seers in all ages and in all civilised lands who understood their transcendent importance. But it has remained for our own age to realise the practical value of these great revelations, and to place them on a basis where, in connection with the philosophy of evolution, they may become potent factors in all future education.

What these discoveries are we shall consider from chapter to chapter, since they will appear in our discussion in their proper places as practical factors in daily life. Suffice it at this point that in general

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