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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

the struggles of his own interior evolution. He is the man who understands and controls his forces. And this means everything, from physical impulse to spiritual inspiration.

We most reiterate and emphasise the fact that education is for the whole of life. It is to prepare one to live in the fullest, noblest sense. The desideratum is the evolution of the ideal man,—the man of power, physically strong, intellectually masterful, morally sound, and socially complete. He is to represent the universe from an individual point of view. He is to seize upon some aspect of life and express it as no man has expressed it before—to write about it, to paint it, to understand its laws, reveal its beauty, or turn it to practical account for the benefit of humanity.

It is evident that an entire philosophy of human nature and the universe is involved in this educational ideal. We must understand the philosophy before we can intelligently apply the ideal.

What is the central purpose of life, so far as our limited knowledge permits us to define it From the divine point of view, it is evidently the manifestation through evolution, order and degree, genus and species, in one universe or system, of power, form, beauty, life, love. There are as many distinct ideals as there are kinds of beings and things in the world of evolution. There are ideals of physical organisation and form, ideals of mental life and character. Man, the epitome of all beings, evidently stands in a measure for all these ideals,

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