Cover: Title page of the Robert M. McBride & Co. printing (New York, 1920) · Public domain (Wikimedia Commons scan) · source
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
Thomas Troward · 1847–1916
A retired judge's lectures on the relation between the individual mind and the universal: subjective and objective mind, the law of suggestion, and the idea that the individual is a point at which universal mind becomes personal. The most argued of the early New Thought books, and the one later writers drew on.
- First published
- 1904
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Reading time
- About 2 hours
- Translation
- Written in English
Reading time: 30,114 words in Project Gutenberg text #10390, read at 238 words per minute.
- universal mind
- subjective mind
- suggestion
- causation
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- Read the 1909 scan — Internet ArchivePublic domain scan of an early edition. · checked 11 Oct 2026(opens in a new tab)
Copyright
- Kenya
- Public domain (author d. 1916)
- United States
- Public domain
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Questions for discussion
Troward argues like a lawyer. Which step in his reasoning is weakest?
What does he mean by the 'subjective' and 'objective' mind, and do the terms still help?
Trace one of Troward's ideas forward into Holmes or Neville. What changed on the way?
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