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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

follows, all result from the remarkable little thought which swiftly gives its assent to the angry impulse. The whole organism most pay the penalty of that decisive word.

Physiology assures us that with the slightest increase in the intensity of our emotions there is a rush of blood to the head. Recent experiments show that there is a change in the amount of blood flowing to the brain whenever the mind turns in a more active direction. Simply to turn from a book in one's native tongue to the more difficult reading of an unfamiliar passage in a foreign language—for example, a passage in Homer—is sufficient to cause this heightened blood-flow.' If we were able to observe the effects, we should probably discover a response in the entire organism in proportion as the mental state varies from a mere passing thought to a violent emotion, such as great anger or sudden fright.

But it is well to repeat and emphasise what is a familiar thought nowadays,—that the emotional response is equally effective in the opposite direction. As surely as hate contracts and depression draws one into self, so surely does love expand, while hope lifts one above trouble. Everyone knows the effect of the encouragement, good cheer, and love which the buoyant friend brings into a room where depression reigns. A healthy, energetic, optimistic mind strikes the keynote for an entire company. The

(1) Fear, Angelo Mosso, translated by E. Lough. Longman, Green & Co., 1896.

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