A New Era of Thought consists of two parts. The first part is a collection of philosophical and mathematical essays on the fourth dimension. These essays are somewhat disconnected. They teach the possibility of thinking four-dimensionally and about the religious and philosophical insights thus obtainable. In the second part Hinton develops a system of coloured cubes. These cubes serve as model to get a four-dimensional perception as a basis of four-dimensional thinking. This part describes how to visualize a
tesseract by looking at several 3-D cross sections of it. The system of cubic models in A New Era of Thought is a forerunner of the cubic models in Hinton's book The Fourth Dimension.
Contents
Preface
Table of Contents
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-Limitations and its Test.
A Plane World.
Chapter VII.
Self Elements in our Consciousness.
Chapter VIII.
Relation of Lower and Higher Space.
Theory of the Aether.
Chapter IX.
Another View of the Aether.
Material and Aetherial Bodies.
Chapter X.
Higher Space and Higher Being.
Perception and Inspiration.
Chapter IX.
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.