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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

they relate to the soul as the highest centre of all evolution, the home of individuality and the fundamental reality in all thought, our life in mind, our closest communion with each other. These discoveries therefore bear an intimate relation to the great doctrine of the immanent Spirit. They are candidates for a yet higher point of view than that of mere evolution, namely, the attempt to trace evolution to its source in that spiritual involution which is the very life and cause of the stupendous variety of the visible world.

From the point of view of the soul, studied in relation to the immanent Spirit, the chief function of life is spiritual creativeness. The soul is part and parcel of the process of creation. It is potentially master of forces and tendencies which, seen from the lower point of view, limit and imprison us on every side. Its function is therefore in marked contrast to the part assigned it by conventional education.

Current education exists largely for the training of the intellect. The standards are intellectual, the methods are the results of ages of intellectual evolution. Without these methods our universities could not exist. Surely no one who understands the human mind doubts the wisdom of this. We must have training, discipline, accuracy, system, if we are to have education in the highest sense. Nature is a system. Human society is a law-governed organism. The entire universe is regulated by law. We must therefore have trained minds to interpret

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