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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

ears through which it is heard. Light, heat, and cold are such only for the organisms which perceive them. Injure the organism and the result will be altered. If we could greatly develop our senses, what wonders we might hear and see!

My knowledge of the world is merely what my experience has told me, and what I have learned from books and men. But what I learn from books and men is understood in relation to my particular intelligence. All that I know of my closest friend is what my experience with that friend has revealed. I cannot converse, read a book, witness a play, or listen to a lecture apart from my point of view.

Further, no two persons behold even the same physical object, for example, a tree; for what we behold is a mental picture or idea resulting from the sensations of colour, form, etc., gathered by our physical organisms. We assume that our idea is like the tree, but we do not know it, and cannot prove it. We know only our states of consciousness, and these are intelligible only so far as we have philosophised.

Let me soar into the sky, strike my hand against a rock, enter a trance, transmit thought, or lose myself in spiritual ecstasy; all these experiences are alike conditioned by what I am and what I have thought. If I am developed by them, the new thought necessarily enters into relation with the old. I can grasp only what my state of development permits. What may exist beyond, "in the air," on Mars, on Venus, I know not.

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