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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

subordinate to this revelation. Everything else should be a means, this is the end. This guidance is detailed, adequate, faithful. It speaks successively through instinct, desire, ambition, talent, intuition, genius. It applies to every possible situation. It exists for every soul. But in the majority it is ignored, misunderstood, and opposed. Hundreds of deflecting tendencies lead the mind away from it into pride, the glory of mere learning, egotism, and the rest.

A man most believe in himself if he is to turn his educational experiment to spiritual account. He must work out every problem for himself. He must be as free from authorities, whether books, teachers, or organisations, all of which he may make use of, as he is free from the bondages which conventional society seeks to impose.

Thus education becomes art for art's sake, work for work's sake, the pursuit of truth wherever it may lead. First, last, and always it is an experiment. It is illustrated by the life of the painter who is over sketching and altering, to express a nobler ideal. It is seen in the striving of the musician to express the harmonies and melodies of sound; in the ambition of the poet, tirelessly working to attain perfection of form.

The critic now insists that such an experiment tends to create mere individualists. Not if it be thorough. Not if a man be truly an artist, really a scholar, a truth-seeker, one who knows his own mind and understands the laws of the universe.

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