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A NEW ERA OF THOUGHT.
SCIENTIFIC ROMANCES.
By C. Howard Hinton, M.A.
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1. What is the Fourth Dimension? 1s.
GHOSTS EXPLAINED.
“A short treatise of admirable clearness. . . . Mr. Hinton brings us,panting but delighted, to at least a momentary faith in the Fourth Dimension,and upon the eye of this faith there opens a vista of interestingproblems. . . . His pamphlet exhibits a boldness of speculation, and apower of conceiving and expressing even the inconceivable, which rousesone’s faculties like a tonic.”—Pall Mall.
2. The Persian King; or, TheLaw of the Valley, 1s.
THE MYSTERY OF PLEASURE AND PAIN.
“A very suggestive and well-written speculation, by the inheritor of anhonoured name.”—Mind.
“Will arrest the attention of the reader at once.”—Knowledge.
3. A Plane World, 1s.
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SECOND SERIES.
1. On the Education of the Imagination.
2. Many Dimensions, 1s.
LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
A New Era of Thought.
BY
CHARLES HOWARD HINTON, M.A., Oxon.
Author of “What is the Fourth Dimension,” and other “Scientific Romances.”
London:
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1888.
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PREFACE.
The MSS. which formed the basis of this book werecommitted to us by the author, on his leaving Englandfor a distant foreign appointment. It was his wish thatwe should construct upon them a much more completetreatise than we have effected, and with that intentionhe asked us to make any changes or additions we thoughtdesirable. But long alliance with him in this work hasconvinced us that his thought (especially that of a generalphilosophical character) los