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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

through a merely emotional experience. It were better that they should not attend church for a time than that they should sacrifice freedom of thought. When the soul's awakening comes, advise them to attend the services of every kind of church, and think for themselves. Place books where they are sure to find them which, like Lydia Maria Child's Aspirations of the World, or Clarke's Ten Great Religions, acquaint them with the fact that there are any religions besides Christianity. Your children may miss the advantages of membership in one church, but they will gain the inestimable advantage of membership in the church universal.

Again, travel, and especially foreign travel, acquaints one with self, shows what one knows and does not know, and quickens a deep desire for knowledge. In many an instance it has been the basis of what is known as the higher education. In my experiment it was foreign travel, combined with the years of general reading, which at twenty-two prompted the first desire for college training. Under such circumstances the college years are sure to be greatly beneficial. For the student is old enough to know his needs; he knows what he wants to study, he has seen something of life; and in a college like Harvard he can from the first elect those courses which his now rapidly developing individuality most keenly craves.

The business man will argue that it is absurd to let a boy wait until he is twenty-two before he even begins to prepare for college, and it may be absurd

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