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Charles Howard Hinton. A New Era of Thought
A New Era of Thought
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO PART I
PART I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. SCEPTICISM AND SCIENCE. BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER II. APPREHENSION OF NATURE. INTELLIGENCE. STUDY OF ARRANGEMENT OR SHAPE
CHAPTER III. THE ELEMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER IV. THEORY AND PRACTICE
CHAPTER V. KNOWLEDGE: SELF-ELEMENTS
CHAPTER VI. FUNCTION OF MIND. SPACE AGAINST METAPHYSICS. SELF-LIMITATION AND ITS TEST. A PLANE WORLD
CHAPTER VII. SELF ELEMENTS IN OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
CHAPTER VIII. RELATION OF LOWER TO HIGHER SPACE. THEORY OF THE ÆTHER
CHAPTER IX. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE ÆTHER. MATERIAL AND ÆTHERIAL BODIES
CHAPTER X. HIGHER SPACE AND HIGHER BEING. PERCEPTION AND INSPIRATION
CHAPTER XI. SPACE THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF ALTRUISM AND RELIGION
PART II
CHAPTER I. THREE-SPACE. GENESIS OF A CUBE. APPEARANCES OF A CUBE TO A PLANE-BEING
CHAPTER II. FURTHER APPEARANCES OF A CUBE TO A PLANE-BEING
CHAPTER III. FOUR-SPACE. GENESIS OF A TESSARACT. ITS REPRESENTATION IN THREE-SPACE
CHAPTER IV. TESSARACT MOVING THROUGH THREE-SPACE. MODELS OF THE SECTIONS
CHAPTER V. REPRESENTATION OF THREE-SPACE BY NAMES, AND IN A PLANE
Naming a Piece of Space
CHAPTER VI. THE MEANS BY WHICH A PLANE-BEING WOULD ACQUIRE A CONCEPTION OF OUR FIGURES
CHAPTER VII. FOUR-SPACE: ITS REPRESENTATION IN THREE-SPACE
CHAPTER VIII. REPRESENTATION OF FOUR-SPACE BY NAME. STUDY OF TESSARACTS
CHAPTER IX. FURTHER STUDY OF TESSARACTS
CHAPTER X. CYCLICAL PROJECTIONS
CHAPTER XI. A TESSARACTIC FIGURE AND ITS PROJECTIONS
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
APPENDIX E. A Theorem in Four-space
APPENDIX F
Exercises on Shapes of Three Dimensions
Answers
Further Exercises in Shapes of Three Dimensions
Answers
Exercises on Shapes of Four Dimensions
Answers
APPENDIX H
Sections of Cube and Tessaract
A Description of Figures 26 to 41
APPENDIX K
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Charles Howard Hinton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But for the purpose of knowing we must leave out these human relationships. They are an affair of instinct and inherited unconscious experience. The mind may some day rise to the level of these inherited apprehensions, and be able to explain them; but at present it is far more than overtasked to give an account of the simplest portions of matter, and is quite inadequate to give an account of the nature of a human being.
Asking, then, what there was which I could know, I found no point of beginning. There were plenty of ways of accumulating observations, but none in which one could go hand in hand with nature.
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