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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

or three years to which one is likely to be limited after the age of twenty. But there are all the advantages on the other side which we have considered in this chapter, and the majority of minds acquire the requisite knowledge very rapidly at this maturer period: they have learned how to work; they know what freedom from pressure is and will not permit their energies to run to excess. Another advantage is found in the fact that if a favourite author, like Emerson, has quickened the spiritual nature, the intellect does not become supremely dominant, and education assumes that broader form which prepares the way for many-sided social life.

If the critic complains at this introduction of the Spirit, then let him and his followers pursue the conventional course. But everyone who has for years given play to his intellect, then tried to curb it, knows how strong is the tendency to become a mere scholar. The temptation is to study on and on, absorbed in mere technicalities; the true educational spirit has many other demands which a man is likely to hear if his ears be not over-fascinated by the enticements of the intellect.

Every man who has matured without the conventional school and college training would be other than he is had he been given that training, and no man can positively know which course would have led to the better results; for we know only by doing. But every man who understands himself knows what influences have helped him most, and it is a significant fact that so many who are unconventionally

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