Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND FEAR In the preceding chapter it was laid down that the purpose of education is to guarantee the biological integrity of the individual. It was also stated that fear in the human mind has ever been the fundamental element that has made biological integrity impossible. In the present chapter there shall be commenced a detailed exposition of that first great fact, showing wherein fear constitutes the one primary violation and the one monumental defeat of the sacred psychic rights of every individual who goes through life mentally crucified. At the very outset I want to drive home the following most tremendous truth, namely: The fundamental state of the mind is the basic determinant in the education of the individual. This principle follows directly on the very heels of the concept of biological integrity—for the very moment that we grant the proposition that self-preservation is the most basic right and desire in the Universe; and further and especially that the only real self-preservation is that which inheres in the innate consciousness of that psychic stability which spells self-poise and self-equality and self-justification in the eyes of the individual himself— I say that the very moment that we grant those two propositions, then at once it must be admitted that the real measure of any individual's education is the fundamental state of his mind. Now, note carefully that this fundamental state of the mind is an entirely different thing than the amount of knowledge that the mind may possess—for a mind may be teeming with knowledge, and yet at the same time be a shivering wreck. The absolute truth of this declaration mustbe perceived and admitted—otherwise the principle of biological integrity with all its ...