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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

"believed" in taking cold, the other did not. Let us compare the lives of these two people.

One has lived the conventional life, and has regarded disease as something which everyone is likely to "catch." Consequently, he has had little ventilation in his room at night, has been afraid of draughts of air, afraid of the dampness in the air and the ground, afraid to go out in winter without an overcoat or in summer without a hat, and so on— the enumeration would fill pages. When winter underclothing has once been put on, he has not dared to take it off until late in May. He has taken medicine "to purify his blood." And he has always gratified his senses.

The other has lived a natural life, has been much in the open air, and is at home in all kinds of weather. He enjoys an east wind. He is relaxed and happy on a hot day. His windows are wide open at night, in summer, fall, spring, and winter. He can change from thick to thin underclothing in midwinter without inconvenience. He wears an overcoat or not as he chooses. He eats pure food when he is hungry, and enjoys it; has never taken medicine; does not smoke or drink; he leads a pure life.

Now is it the belief or the mode of life which is responsible for the immunity from disease in the one case and the constant slavery to it in the other? If the conventional man becomes a convert to the mental-healing doctrine to-day, will he escape all disease to-morrow? Or does his belief profit him

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