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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

In general terms, any emotional excess tends to disturb the functions of the body. Passion leads naturally to the development of superfluous heat, which must be thrown off through the general system. An excessive amount of food put into the stomach of course disturbs the natural rhythm of that organ. Excessive stirrings of the sex nature are likely to result in disturbances of the throat or in undue heating of the eyes and brain. The results usually bear specific names, and the victim, ignorant of the cause, supposes that he has caught an external disease.

It is obvious that many diseases are directly traceable to excess, to an abnormal amount of heat, overeating, and the almost innumerable excesses which spring from nervous hurry and tension. If man really wishes to put himself in a thoroughly sound condition, he must strike at the heart of all these difficulties by adopting as his absolute rule, Nothing to excess.

Yet physical excess is only one phase of the subject. In order to understand the power of equanimity as a. source of health, we must inquire more deeply into the nature of disease.

In the past, man has been accustomed to regard disease as something which seized him from outside, whatever his inner condition. It has also been believed that medicine could of itself cure, even prevent, nearly all diseases; despite the obvious fact that, so far as illness is due to excess, its permanent cure is moderation and equanimity. But in these

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