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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

learns that it is not God, but a statement of his consciousness in search of God, he then frankly confesses his ignorance, and the growth of real wisdom begins.

Since all revelation, all experience, necessarily partakes of the limitations of the recipient, it should be put forth only for what it is worth. All generalisations concerning experience should be understood as describing that experience in so far as we now see it. Consequently, the wise man says: So far as I have observed, this is the way it seems, this appears highly probable. I will therefore adopt this hypothesis tentatively, but hold myself open to an entire change of view. Thus the experimental attitude most be paramount until philosophy has discovered the last datum.

There are numberless illusions which hold sway for a time. If, for example, I at suffering from disease, and experiment with various drugs, all of which fail until suddenly I regain my health, my conclusion naturally is that the drug healed me. But it may be a mere coincidence that I take just this drug simultaneously with nature's restoration of my body. Or it may appear that a hypnotist, a faith healer, or a mental healer has cured me. Yet all this may be illusory, for my own faith or autosuggestion may have been the real agent. Perhaps some spirit healed me. Perhaps my excess had run itself out. Who knows positively?

Even if I could absolutely know in a given case, it would not follow that all cases are to be described

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