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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

guides to truth. The reasons for affirming this proposition will become clear by a consideration of the aims and possibilities of education.

Since education is to fit man to live,—that is, to train him to be an all-round being, not merely practical but beautiful, not only individual but social, a thinker, a worker, and a master,—its true basis is practical knowledge of the art of life; it most not be separated from life. And life in its fullest sense is not merely physical and intellectual, but spiritual; it springs from the invisible Reality or Spirit behind all evolution, and is complete only through the realisation of the spiritual ideal.

Without stopping at this point to examine the reasons for this statement, and without attempting to justify the adoption of the criterion of spiritual creativeness as the supreme test, let us simply enounce it as the broadest ideal, that the aim of education is the creative expression of the God or Spirit in us through individuality. If life is ultimately spiritual, if it manifests the Spirit, it is this ideal which alone gives to education the central principle, the unity which it must possess in order to be consistently progressive from infancy to so called old age. Fundamentally speaking, the development of the spiritual individual most ever be of more consequence than the development of the scholar or the training of the merchant. For the scholar is essentially the was of learning, the merchant is merely practical, while the spiritual individual is the man of life in its fullest, broadest

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