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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

which I was listening. My friend paid no heed to the silent suggestion until there came a pause in the rapid flow of his thought, and immediately he gave utterance to the idea which his subconsciousness had received ten or fifteen minutes before.

Again, a sensitively organised speaker enters into subconscious affinity with his auditors, notably in a small and very sympathetic audience, and adapts his discourse to the needs of his hearers, answering their questions and voicing their longings so effectively as to call out the surprised comment of those who afterwards come forward to compare notes with the speaker. In fact the tendency to " speak for the audience " is sometimes so strong that a speaker must be on his guard to keep it within bounds. In a highly cultivated audience this subconscious influence is helpful, but in a mediocre gathering there is a tendency to lower the standard.

Sensitive minds respond to the same subconscious connection with another mind when sitting down to write a letter to the person in question. Here, also the effect is helpful or hampering according to the type of mind addressed. That these effects are not wholly due to one's own subconsciousness is proved by instances like the following.

I once sat down to write to a man whom I did not know and whom I had never seen. To my surprise I found myself inclined to conceal my real thought, even to deceive, and the influence was so strong that I could hardly overcome it. Later, I learned that the man was one who concealed an insincere

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