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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

although many physical ideals attain a higher degree of perfection among the lower animals. Yet he is, without doubt, to be judged by the highest that is in him, always reserving a large sphere for future ideals and possibilities as yet unknown to the wisest of men.

If man is an immortal spirit, he is to be truly understood only from the point of view of his eternally progressive soul-life. It is not primarily for the body that he lives, not as a financier or statesman that he is to be permanently known, but as a soul.

That this is not yet fully the ideal even of the new education is evident from the fact that so much stress is still laid on mere acquirement. But, if this high ideal is to be realised, soul-knowledge must be held in greater esteem than knowledge of books. This is a familiar thought to exponents of the new education. But I mean far more than is ordinarily understood by self or soul-knowledge.

The term " self," as used in the psychologies and treatises on education now in vogue, refers to the mind in its association with the brain; that is, a feeling, thought, will. It is a sort of abstract self,s and is studied apart from the vital problems of daily living.

The larger knowledge of self of which I speak grows out of concrete experience, contests with ill-health, sorrow, and suffering. It includes the results of psychical research, the therapeutic value of thought, the power of hope, and a practical idealistic

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