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The Creative Process in the Individual

Author: Thomas Troward

In the present volume I have endeavored to set before the reader the

conception of a sequence of creative action commencing with the formation

of the globe and culminating in a vista of infinite possibilities

attainable by every one who follows up the right line for their unfoldment.

I have endeavored to show that, starting with certain incontrovertible

scientific facts, all these things logically follow, and that therefore,

however far these speculations may carry us beyond our past experience,

they nowhere break the thread of an intelligible connection of cause and

effect.

I do not, however, offer the suggestions here put forward in any other

light than that of purely speculative reasoning; nevertheless, no advance

in any direction can be made except by speculative reasoning going back to

the first principles of things which we do know and thence deducing the

conditions under which the same principles might be carried further and

made to produce results hitherto unknown. It is to this method of thought

that we owe all the advantages of civilization from matches and

post-offices to motor-cars and aeroplanes, and we may therefore be

encouraged to hope such speculations as the present may not be without

their ultimate value. Relying on the maxim that Principle is not bound by

Precedent we should not limit our expectations of the future; and if our

speculations lead us to the conclusion that we have reached a point where

we are not only able, but also _required_, by the law of our own being, to

take a more active part in our personal evolution than heretofore, this

discovery will afford us a new outlook upon life and widen our horizon with

fresh interests and brightening hopes.

If the thoughts here suggested should help any reader to clear some mental

obstacles from his path the writer will feel that he has not written to no

purpose. Only each reader must think out these suggestions for himself. No

writer or lecturer can convey an idea _into_ the minds of his audience. He

can only put it before them, and what they will make of it depends entirely

upon themselves--assimilation is a process which no one can carry out for

us.

To the kindness of my readers on both sides of the Atlantic, and in

Australia and New Zealand, I commend this little volume, not, indeed,

without a deep sense of its many shortcomings, but at the same time

encouraged by the generous indulgence extended to my previous books.

T.T.

June, 1910.