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Excerpt from Mentality and Freedom

Never in the history of the human family were there more glaring facts to substantiate the need of the individual to realize his innate power for creative good. The one ray of hope for this battle scarred world is universal education in the truth that alone can make men free. It is time that the world ceased to reverence the Napoleons and Alex anders of history, the enemies and destroyers of freedom, democracy and lasting progress. Our children must be taught the attributes of true man hood and the dimensions of real heroes. Their receptive minds should by truth be kept free from prejudice, so that they Will spontaneously respond to the Apostles of Beauty and Love, to the world's sages Who are the real creative builders of human happiness and well-being, and thus Will they grow in harmony With the great Cosmic Plan of Evolu tion toward perfection.

The author hopes to publish during the coming year a separate volume of essays on this same gen eral subj ect, dealing more directly With education and the mental development and freedom of the young.

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Excerpt from Mentality and Freedom

In this series of essays, the dominant motif of Human Potentiality has been sounded from many view-points. The continual repetition of the fundamental theme is by no means a novel method in the propounding of truth. Indeed, it is only by repetition and reiteration through many aspects of the same great truths that potent convictions, demanding action, are formed. It is not unlike the method used by the organist improvising upon his theme and placing it in different settings; at one time he uses the simple motif with conspicuous clearness; at another it is only a subtle suggestion; occasionally the fundamental chord is given, and through it all the dominant theme vibrates true.

The great curse that blights and unfettered human life - the world's besetting sin - is ignorance. It is the ignorance of mental lethargy, of arrested growth and of thoughtless acquiescence in the tenets of external domination. This ignorance is evident when human minds, instead of exercising reason, mechanically reflect the opinions of the crowd, when they accept without review the creeds of external authority and lose themselves in dwarfing mind-habits which are deeply rutted in tradition. Thus individuality is deadened and Godhood is crucified.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.