A new era of thought / by Charles Howard Hinton

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Hinton, Charles Howard, 1853-1907
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London : S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1888
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NEW ERA OF THOUGHT. 1
NEW ERA OF THOUGHT. 3
[Chapter heading not available] 6
New Era of Thought. 7
PREFACE. 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 13
INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO PART I. 17
NEW ERA OF THOUGHT. 21
CHAPTER I. SCEPTICISM AND SCIENCE. BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE. 28
CHAPTER II. APPREHENSION OF NATURE. INTELLIGENCE. STUDY OF ARRANGEMENT OR SHAPE. 34
CHAPTER III. THE ELEMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE. 41
CHAPTER IV. THEORY AND PRACTICE. 44
CHAPTER V. KNOWLEDGE: SELF-ELEMENTS. 49
CHAPTER VI. FUNCTION OF MIND. SPACE AGAINST METAPHYSICS. SELF-LIMITATION AND ITS TEST. A PLANE WORLD. 55
CHAPTER VII. SELF ELEMENTS IN OUR CONSCIOUSNESS. 67
CHAPTER VIII. RELATION OF LOWER TO HIGHER SPACE. THEORY OF THE ÆTHER. 71
CHAPTER IX. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE ÆTHER. MATERIAL AND ÆTHERIAL BODIES. 81
CHAPTER X. HIGHER SPACE AND HIGHER BEING. PERCEPTION AND INSPIRATION. 87
CHAPTER XI. SPACE THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF ALTRUISM AND RELIGION. 105
PART II. CHAPTER I. THREE-SPACE. GENESIS OF A CUBE. APPEARANCES OF A CUBE TO A PLANE-BEING. 121
CHAPTER II. FURTHER APPEARANCES OF A CUBE TO A PLANE-BEING. 135
CHAPTER III. FOUR-SPACE. GENESIS OF A TESSARACT. ITS REPRESENTATION IN THREE-SPACE. 140
CHAPTER IV. TESSARACT MOVING THROUGH THREE-SPACE. MODELS OF THE SECTIONS. 152
CHAPTER V. REPRESENTATION OF THREE-SPACE BY NAMES, AND IN A PLANE. 157
CHAPTER VI. THE MEANS BY WHICH A PLANE-BEING WOULD ACQUIRE A CONCEPTION OF OUR FIGURES. 181
CHAPTER VII. FOUR-SPACE: ITS REPRESENTATION IN THREESPACE. 190
CHAPTER VIII. REPRESENTATION OF FOUR-SPACE BY NAME. STUDY OF TESSARACTS. 201
CHAPTER IX. FURTHER STUDY OF TESSARACTS. 213
CHAPTER X. CYCLICAL PROJECTIONS. 216
CHAPTER XI. A TESSARACTIC FIGURE AND ITS PROJECTIONS. 220
APPENDIX A. This set of 100 names is useful for studying Plane Space, and forms a square 10X10. 233
APPENDIX B. The following list of names is used to denote cubic spaces. It makes a cubic block of six floors, the highest being the sixth. 234
APPENDIX C. The following names are used for a set of 256 Tessaracts. 236
APPENDIX D. 238
APPENDIX E. A THEOREM IN FOUR-SPACE. 240
APPENDIX F. EXERCISES ON SHAPES OF THREE DIMENSIONS. 241
APPENDIX G. EXERCISES ON SHAPES OF FOUR DIMENSIONS. 243
APPENDIX H. SECTIONS OF CUBE AND TESSARACT. 245
PART II. APPENDIX K. 265

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