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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

make him profoundly grateful, as his presence on earth should make him rejoice. It should also inspire that earnest work of emancipation which, beginning at home, should extend itself to one's immediate associates, then spread abroad for the benefit of all mankind.

The individual and collective emancipation of humanity being, then, the real meaning of all the struggles through which we pass, it follows that the most far-reaching work of reform is that which most directly brings man to consciousness of his privileges as a member of the social organism.

What is needed as the outcome of this conference is workers who, imbued with this great ideal of social liberty, shall do everything in their power to awaken mankind to a knowledge of freedom.

We who are here are doubtless bound in many ways, and I who speak to you may have unwittingly insisted upon just my theory of freedom. The conference is therefore open to other statements of the great problem before us. For we must first agree upon the ideal before we can consider methods for its realisation.

The first day's session is closed with an animated discussion of different conceptions of freedom, and the difficulties to be met in persuading men to transmute the selfish spirit of monopoly into the loftier spirit of altruism. It is found that one of the chief difficulties is this: The law of natural evolution is the survival of the strongest, who push the weakest

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