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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

that law. There is nothing more deplorable in certain kinds of so-called spiritual doctrine than vagueness, mysticism, disloyalty to fact. We need more and more those who appreciate what a fact is, who know how to state it, free from the preconceptions, prejudices, and inclinations which so often warp and distort. One of the greatest needs of this or any age is the thinker, he who understands the laws of the universe as revealed in history, in nature, and in human society; who is capable of working out life's problems, aided but not hampered by books and men.

Yet, when all this has been said, there remains the danger, and it has always been a threatening one, that the higher nature may be crowded out by the intellect. By the higher nature I mean our finest feelings, our intuitions, insights, inspirations, spiritual faculties, the love of all that is noblest, and the contemplative life, or worship, of the soul. Every mind in which the scientific interest is strong, and the higher nature strong, too, finds it necessary to be watchful lest analysis intrude on the sacred domain of insight, and, ruddy treading there, declare that there is no holy ground which science shall not call her own.

I venture to lay down the proposition that education can fulfil its highest purpose only by promoting to the front rank this same neglected higher nature, by insisting that spirit shall be first and form secondary, that the inspirations of the intuitive faculty are our most important sources of knowledge, our surest

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