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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

insist first of all that everything shall be done well, that one's work shall be a finished performance. This educational method, of course, means that the reform must begin at the root of American nervousness and rush. Equanimity must become hereditary. Children must be born on a higher plane, from spiritual rather than from physical motives. Our boys and girls most be better equipped from the start, and from infancy to maturity be instructed in accordance with the spiritual ideal.

The higher education, therefore, begins long before the birth of the child. The parents most first rid the mind of the old theology, the old fear and pessimism, then devote their lives to the new ideals now so widely accepted, which we have considered in the foregoing chapter: the belief he the inherent goodness of men, salvation through character, and also the ideal of the attainment of perfect health through beauty of thought, righteousness of life, and spiritual self-understanding.

Prenatal influence, therefore, has much to do with the future education of the child. The mother should live as far as possible in an atmosphere of idealism, of hope, of practical optimism. Her thoughts should be centred upon the broadly inclusive spiritual ideal. Her home should be the meeting-place of all that is ennobling. It should be a house of peace, of moderation, of love, so that the strongest desire implanted upon the growing organism shall be for the fruits of the Spirit. If the child is brought forth in love, not in passion, in

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