251 pp. A scientific analysis of the process of thought, by the American journalist known for his writing on business and economics. Hazlitt contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Contents of this work include: The Neglect of Thinking; Thinking with Method; A Few Cautions; Concentration; Prejudice and Uncertainty; Debate and Conversation; Thinking and Reading; Writing One's Thoughts; Things Worth Thinking About; Thinking as an Art; Books on Thinking (in this last section, the author recommends works by: John Locke; Isaac Watts; Arnold Bennett; T. Sharper Knowlson; Arthur Schopenhauer; John Dewey; William James; S.S. Colvin; Stanley Jevon; J.A. Thomson; Herbert Spencer; John Stuart Mill; William Clifford; Alexander Bain; Francis Bacon; John Morley; Sir John Lubbock; Frederic Harrison; William Swan Sonnenschein; James Baldwin; Dr. Charles Eliot; Frank Parson; E.H. Griggs; and Charles Darwin).
