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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

drugs and doctors? If so, let no follow out this great thought as essential to our ideal of manysided, therefore of sound education, and as an illustration of some of the discoveries concerning the inner life of man which we have considered in the foregoing chapter. For we have laid it down as a prime essential of the spiritual ideal in education that its exponents shall possess equanimity, or inner poise.

In the case of the Friends the results are doubtless largely spontaneous. It is the habit of their life to wait in silence, and they already possess as an hereditary virtue that which so many are now seeking self-consciously. Is it possible to combine the serenity of the Friends with the heightened activity of a disciple of scientific evolution and the zealous seeker after more and more spiritual truth?

Let us first regard the problem from the lower point of view. What is the physiology of poise?
Careful scientific investigation¹ has revealed the interesting fact that the functions of the body are maintained through rhythmic action. If this rhythm be interfered with, of course the normal functioning of the organs is disturbed. Anything which disturbs the sympathetic nervous system is likely to affect this natural rhythm. For example, violent emotion quickens the rhythmic action of the heart. Anger causes the capillaries to contract. Fear reaches the very extremities.

(1) see The Abdominal Brain, by Byron Robinson. Clinic Publishing Co., Chicago.

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