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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

only because man has been largely ignorant of humane ends.

If business, social, educational, parental, marital, and other relationships interfere with the development of individuality, they are so far wrong. Man should be free to think for himself, educate himself, choose his occupation, select his wife. He should grant the same freedom to all in accordance with one moral standard for both sexes.

The home life should be adapted to the growth of individual experiment and character.

All educational facilities should be open to the choice of those who care to use them.

The highest office of the intellectual teacher is to persuade people to think for themselves.
The function of the minister is to inspire the untrammelled worship of the free soul. The fetters now imposed in the name of religion indicate only the ignorance of the great ideal of freedom of those who impose them.

The environment of earth, society, and the world of mind is calculated to develop to the full the individuality of each. But in order that this may be, as man is a social being, there must be recognition of this ideal both on the part of society and on the part of the individual. For, as society is an organism, and its members both individually incomplete and socially supplementary, the freedom of man, either individually or collectively, is possible only through mutual understanding and mutual help.

The realisation of all that society is to man should

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