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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


  • Emerson, 1, 2, 101, 102, 105-107, 110, 120, 123, 210
  • Environment, 45, 49, 50, 94. 96, 110 133, 201
  • Epicurus, 178
  • Equanimity, need of, 28; heredity, 29; health and, 31 et seq.; as cure, 33; power of, 42. 50, 52, 89; dynamic, 47; attainment of, 47; meaning of, 48; environment and, 49; subconsciousness and, 56, 72; dreams and, 71; growth of, 72; value of, 194, 213; spiritual life and, 222; future life and, 237
  • Equilibrium, 36, 41, 42, 86, 148, 236, 237
  • Erdmann, 160, 162
  • Eternity, 206, 207, 239
  • Ethical life, 223
  • Ethics, 180
  • Euclid, 4.
  • Evil, origin of, 8, 12, 13, 151; relativity of knowledge and, 143-151; creation and, 146, 147, 149; pain and, 146-152; perfection and, 147, 150, 151; goodness and, 148, 151 207; contrast and, 148, 149, 207; progress and, 150; thought and, 150.; education and, 151; devil and. 151; problem of, 152; justification of, 152; philosophy and, 154; non-resistance and, 183; overcoming of, 184; organism and, 198, 201; nature of, 207
  • Evolution, 2, 10-19, 23, 26, 81, 83. 93, 115, 134, 149, 151, 154, 167, 198, 207, 217; education and, 74; motherhood and, 78; stages of, 80, 89.; immortality and, 223, 224
  • Examinations, 106
  • Excess, 33, 44-46, 50, 75, 210
  • Existence, 1, 190, 191 205
  • Experience, 24, 85, 100, 145, 148, 166, 186-188, 190-195, 198
  • Experience Ideal, 154, 166
    Experimental point of view, 3, 4. 167
  • F

  • Fact. 21, 189
  • Falckenberg, 162
  • Father the, 6, 23, 83, 84, 140, 199, 208, 215
  • Fatigue, 45. 51
  • Fear, 32, 34, 35, 38, 42, 43, 79, 236, 238
  • Fiske, John, 102, 148
  • Force, economy of, 44,45: relativity of, 204
  • Freedom, 8, 15, 16, 41, 50, 103, 129-135, 152, 192, 208, 215, 230, 235, 240
  • French peasant, instance of, 61
  • Friends, the, 31, 32, 48
  • Froebel, 92 92
  • G

  • Galileo, 18
  • God, 2, 14, 140, 190; origin of, 84; method of, 115; idea of, 165; how known, 204; the whole and, 205; progress of, 208; limitations of, 211
  • Gordon, F. C.. 81
  • Government, 131
  • Greatness, 117
  • Greek, 104
  • Green, 280
  • Guidance, 8, 65, 109, 229, 231
  • Gymnasium system, German, 96
  • H

  • Habit, 44, 57, 85, 243
  • Hall, Stanley, 90
  • Hartmann, 558
  • Harvard, 103
  • Health. 24, 30, 30, 38-41, 46, 52, 114, 149, 237; in childhood, 78-80
  • Hegel, 162,177
  • Heredity, 74, 77
  • Higher criticism, 18

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