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Horatio Dresser was a major early New Thought author

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Horatio W. Dresser's

Education and the Philosophical Ideal

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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

The Origin of Species in 1856, because the students of evolution have dared and are daring to propose questions which Darwin's theory did not fully answer.

With all these considerations in mind, we may now define the philosophical method analytically and didactically as follows:

Seek first facts, reasons, causes. Hypotheses are only needed temporarily to eke out facts, or as first steps in the scientific method.

Do not assume premises: give evidence for every statement.

Think accurately, moderately, exhaustively. Follow reason rather than preconception, wherever it leads.

Use no word whose meaning is not perfectly clear to the average philosophical reader.
Define accurately when necessary.

Ignore no facts. Be open-minded, on the alert. for new evidence.

Use language which cannot be mistaken.

Make no statement for which you could not, if questioned, give an adequate reason; none on authority.

" Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted."

Be content only with the most rational, the best provisional, the most accurate statements which our limited knowledge permits us to make.

Do not be eager to explain facts according to

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