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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

enters, there is discord somewhere. If poise is lacking in any degree, there is waste of force.

The problem is simply the economy of force. It is like the problem of the mechanic, or the electrician: how to avoid the enormous waste of mechanical power. No man has fully solved the problem in his own life in whom there is waste of force. Man must learn how, in every particular, to spend his power to the best advantage.

Affirmations and ideals are the merest steps in the right direction: it is work that tells. Stop yourself while you work, and make a study of your particular occupation, that you may attain poise in that direction.

Observe the successful woodsman: lee pauses or rests between each blow of the axe, he chops rhythmically; whereas the untrained man follows one blow with another in nervous succession.

It is more fatiguing for a tall man to walk slowly with one who takes short steps than to walk thrice as any miles at his natural rhythmic gait. In all kinds of work there are natural temperamental limits within which one can do an enormous amount of work with a minimum expenditure of energy. The secret of work with the minimum degree of fatigue is poised rhythmic action through economy of nerve force.

This is a vitally important point for every student, for every teacher, for every parent. Each must learn in his own way the great secret of economic work.

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