Thomas Troward, 1904. Complete text.
Troward was a divisional judge in the Punjab before he was anything else, and the Edinburgh lectures of 1904 read like a judgment: premise, consequence, objection, ruling. This is the book that gave New Thought its argumentative spine, and the reason writers who came after him, Neville Goddard among them, could speak about mind in terms of law rather than wishfulness.
The central distinction is between objective mind, which reasons and selects, and subjective mind, which accepts and reproduces. Almost everything later written about assumption, impression and belief is a restatement of the chapters here on receptivity, the law of growth, and causes and conditions.
It is dense, and worth reading slowly. Troward never repeats himself for emphasis, so a paragraph skimmed is usually a paragraph lost.
Transcribed from the Project Gutenberg edition. First published in 1904 and long out of copyright worldwide.