Chapters on the Art of Thinking - 1879 Author:James Hinton 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: PREFACE. The present volume is composed partly of papers which were found amongst the manuscripts left by my father in a form ready for publication, partly of... more » essays which have appeared on various occasions in literary or scientific periodicals. No use has been made of the greater mass of the manuscripts which exist, as they were intended to be entirely rewritten and rearranged before publication. Nor have any extracts been given from a series of volumes which contain his work from 1859 to 1863 and again from 1869 to 1870. These volumes would form the most available source to whoever wished to make a study of the course and bearings of my father's inquiries, but are hardly adapted for general perusal, as they are more a record of his thoughts in the process and order of development than an exposition of the results at which he arrived. In order to make their contents accessible, it is necessary to bring together into one parts which are oftenseparated by many pages, and to collate them with later and imprinted manuscripts. A book thua formed will, I hope, some time be produced. Of the essays in this volume the two, " On the Bases of Morals" and "Professor Tyndall and the Religious Emotions," which appeared in the " Contemporary Review," taken together with the short paper entitled " Others' Needs," seem to me to give the best representation there is of the ethical portion of my father's writings. Between pages 100 and 212 will be found a series of articles which are for the most part reprinted from the " Christian Spectator." Some of them were in the form of letters to the Editor, and when this was the case I have simply removed unnecessary paragraphs. Amongst them, on page 213, is an explanation of " The Mystery of Pain," contributed at the Editor's request shor...« less