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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 so far as, year by year, he acquires the habits of the man who is in harmony with nature?

To be sure, a man must change his belief in order to conquer disease. But what is the decisive factor, day by day, and year by year, the belief or the mode of physical and mental life?

Habitual disbelief in disease may have something to do with the immunity from it on the part of the bicyclist who does not take cold. But is it not his well-ordered life which constitutes his real freedom?

It seems strange that man has so long delayed the discovery that it is his life, his state of development, that causes disease, that disease is disturbed rhythm. But the case is perfectly plain. The natural rhythm of all the functions is maintained only when the body is kept in equilibrium. The slightest variation from tire normal in any part is likely to affect the rhythm of the whole. The result is accurately determined by the disturbing cause.

The equilibrium of the body is maintained through the equilibrium of the emotions, through equanimity, and through the proper care and development of the body. Man must control both his mind and his body if he wishes to be sound. The only way to keep the mind habitually even is by living a poised life. Poise is thus the keynote of all the harmonies of the body. This is the price which Nature demands of man; and if he is unwilling to pay if, he must suffer. If he habitually pays it, he may acquire perfect health.

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