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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

inspired by hope, health, every day and every hour. It should be the culmination of the mind's profoundest researches into the wonders and laws of evolution. In fact, evolution itself proceeds most successfully in this its most sacred environment, the aspiration of the mother heart.¹

In the earliest years of the child's life, it is also the mental atmosphere, the spiritual presence, the father-mother life, which is most influential. Few parents realise how long their children are literally a part of them, how like a sensitive plant the little responsive agent vibrates with the inner attitude. If they realised the deeply sacred character of parenthood, what a reformation there would be in the lives of those who are now lacking in poise, deficient in even the rudiments of self-knowledge and self-control!

The merest observation shows to how slight a degree the little child is responsible for its character and deeds, how fully its life is dependent on the thoughts and acts of those with whom it is brought in constant relation. If a child is approached with force, impatiently, or in a condemnatory spirit, it quickly responds in a similar manner. On the contrary, if it be met with love, no being in the world is more pliable. There are boundless possibilities here, and it is well seriously to consider them. The

(1) The reader will find many very helpful thoughts, beautifully and forcibly stated, in Ideal Motherhood, by Minnie S. Davis (T. Y. Crowell n Co., 1898); and in A Mother's Ideals, published by the author, Andrea Hofer Proudfoot, 1400 Auditorium, Chicago, 1897.

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