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The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

CHAPTER VII
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Especially is it the task of such education, gradually to disclose to the growing psyche those spiritual correspondences for which the religious man and the idealist must hold that man's spirit was made.

Such an education as this has little in common with the mere crude imparting of facts.

It represents rather the careful and loving induction of the growing human creature into the rich world of experience; the help we give it in the great business of adjusting itself to reality.

It operates by means of the moulding influences of environment, the creation of habit.

Suggestion, not statement, is its most potent instrument; and such suggestion begins for good or ill at the very dawn of consciousness.


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