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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

It is this belief that each soul is consciously, or subconsciously, in possession of an ideal which more than anything else characterises this change of attitude. Consequently, the methods employed are becoming idealistic. Instead of calling a child "naughty," or in any way looking upon him as the old pessimistic theology regarded him; instead of labelling a boy "thief" by pinning a placard on his coat because he had taken a ruler that belonged to another boy (an actual occurrence in a prominent public school ten years ago), the child is coming to be regarded from the point of view of evolution; and so the good, and not the bad, is named and encouraged.

It may be that the reaction has gone too far in some instances. The child may have too much license in certain directions. But, at any rate, he is attaining his freedom, he is being treated more like a human being, a fresh creation demanding modified methods in each case; and the foundations are being laid broad and deep for the nobler man of the future.

In this great work of rearing the ideal man, the influences of the home life are paramount, and the utmost which the school can accomplish is to supplement them. Properly speaking, this noblest of all creative work begins with the grandparents. At the latest, it should begin in the spiritual consecration of the father and mother long before the birth of their first child.

If the marriage is the fruition of spiritual affinity,

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