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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

Emerson says: "We arrive at virtue by taking its direction instead of imposing ours." "Obedience alone gives the right to command." Thus education is adjustment between the individual and his environment, turning from side to side, from point to point, perspective to perspective. It is a continual weighing and testing, the development of self yet its correction, a balance between the subjective and the social consciousness. It must constantly be tempered by constructive criticism, and tested by controversy. All this is a part of the experiment. And the adjustment differs in every case.

The cultivation of sympathy is as important as the preservation of spontaneity. Education is incomplete nowadays unless it shows how the under half fives. The "constructive individuality" which is its aim, according to David Starr Jordan,¹ is the outcome of many tendencies, physical, intellectual, moral, social, and spiritual. It is a balance between heart and head. It supplements analysis by synthesis at that point where scepticism becomes merely negative. It forgets not love. It remembers that some things in life are meant to be enjoyed only. Poetry and music hold a permanent place in which scientific zeal is never permitted coldly to intrude. It is loyal to that which is essentially feminine and that which is distinctively masculine. In a word, it produces a man or a woman.

The grand result, then, of our experiment is to

(1) Conservative Review, November, 1899.

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