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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

theme. Possibly the book or lecture has come into your consciousness once or twice meanwhile, and you have been aware of brooding over it. But you have been scarcely conscious of it until some day, weeks afterwards, some one asks a question concerning it, or you hear an opposing view. Lo and behold! the theme reappears, elaborated by all the corresponding harmonies which your life has known, and you are surprised to find how it has grown upon you. Evidently, the data concerning a particular subject gravitate by a hidden law of association to allied data, then assume new relations according as they qualify or supplement that which is already known. It is astonishing sometimes to learn the resources of one's own mind after one of these periods of synthetic assimilation.

Yet even this synthetic power is surpassed in value and wonder by the greater receptivity of subconsciousness. Probably this hidden capacity varies greatly in different minds. For, as we have noted, the subconscious mind is closely conditioned by temperament, and a spiritually sensitive soul stamps its habits upon this deeper process of the mind, while a more intellectual nature is characterised by a more strictly rational subconsciousness.

There are plenty of instances on record of the solution of difficult mathematical and scientific problems during sleep.' Whatever problem absorbs the conscious mind is likely to generate a corresponding activity in subconsciousness. But I refer more

(1) See Carpenter's Mental Physiology.

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