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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

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We ask to know what nature is, in itself, but how is this possible when we know it only as it affects our consciousness? In the future state we shall probably know it in a manner sufficiently unlike our present mode of sense perception to afford instructive contrasts. But we shall still know it through the media of finite consciousness.

We seek the meaning of all facts, but it is difficult to settle upon a fact; for evidence that might suit one class of observers would very likely fail to convince another class. If all that exists is interrelated, universal knowledge is required to interpret one atom, or one idea, as Tennyson has poetically suggested in his "Flower in the crannied wall."

Again, one of our criteria demands that objections shall be raised as long as rationally possible, but how many are really competent to raise objections to a system of metaphysics? Surely is those only who have reflected their temperaments to ultimate self-knowledge. But this is a progressive task, and the varieties of temperaments may not yet be exhausted. Who is great enough to transcend and unify all temperaments? God, do you say? But it is man who demands to know all truth. Even the belief in absolute divine truth is an altar to an unknown god, for each individual owns a distinctive point of view which, as such, must always be his own possession.¹

(1) I have argued this in Voices of Freedom, chapter vi,

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