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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

sense; he who not only teaches men how to think, and how to earn their daily bread, but who shows them how to find and to manifest that Spirit to whose living presence we owe all that we are.

Thus broadly considered, education is the art of expression, the expression of the highest that is in us through all-sided development. Its ends are: to teach men the laws of the universe, both visible and invisible; to teach men how to reason; to show them how to meet the strenuous life; to make clear the supremacy of the soul over circumstance; to attain the highest ideals of art, poetry, music, beauty; and, highest of all, to develop sympathy, to teach unselfishness, the value and power of service. The educated man is he who is best fitted to serve his fellows, he who dedicates his life to the highest ideals of brotherhood.

All these ideals are fundamentally traceable to the great fact that each soul is a unique individual, a fresh experiment. Each bears a personal relation to the Father. Each has its particular message from God to man. Each has its own problem to solve.

Consequently, the history of the individual liberty for which our ancestors so long struggled is the record of the soul's evolution inspired by this divine ideal. The freedom of the soul is attained as rapidly as the conditions of natural, social, and intellectual evolution permit, until that time when, conscious of its real part in life, the soul begins to command its own circumstances. The individual

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