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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

especially to earnest prayers or desires for light on dark points where there is almost nothing to draw upon in the storehouse of memory. Experience again and again shows that these prayers sent out into the great universal world attract answers which come to consciousness later, sometimes at the close of a night's sleep, sometimes intruding their revelations into the busiest moods of the day.

This sudden welling into consciousness of subconscious streams of thought is one of the surest proofs that a part of the mind never rests. Oftentimes when one is away on a vacation, or off for a day's rest, with the avowed intention of avoiding all philosophical thought, and again in the crowded street where the mind is so absorbed that there is apparently no channel left open, these subconscious deliverances surprise the mind with their evidences of progressive thinking. Now a new idea appears which leads the way to a long train of valuable reflection, and now a thought which is essential to an essay just completed and put away " to season." Again, a certain sentence from the essay so persistently rises that at last one perceives that it must he reconstructed or omitted. Other thoughts occur to mind because they could find no entrance until the conscious mind became more quiet.

I once tested this subconscious power of reminding the conscious self when there is sufficient receptivity, by suggestively concentrating my thought upon a certain idea which I wanted a friend to add to the extempore lecture which he was delivering and to

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