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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

more for those teachers who appeal to their credulity than for those who inspire thought. People like to believe, to gather about those who deal in ready made convictions. Consequently, the truth-seeker is condemned because he does not speak out convincingly. He is charged with " threshing his oats in public," when, as matter of fact, he has already thought too deeply to ally himself with any particular theory. But Socrates was the wisest of Greeks because he knew and said that he knew nothing.

It is the superficial teacher who deals only in convictions, never in doubts; who tells what God is and all about life and the soul. He who has truly begun to philosophise knows that all our knowledge is hypothetical. We are proceeding on certain highly probable assumptions, and taking the rest on faith, in the belief that the universe will not prove disappointing.

The little child can ask questions which the wisest of on cannot answer. We may hazard an answer. But it is usually a mere x, a skilful formula to conceal ignorance. In reality, all our knowledge, even our philosophy, is still relative: we know only so far as individual reason has penetrated. Beyond our present life and thought, in other conditions or on other planets, what do we know? Even the idea of God, varying from age to age, is man's attempt to describe a reality corresponding to his highest emotion and thought. While man believes his thought of God to be an infallible revelation, he deceives himself and deceives others. When he

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