Hi Paul and Kitty

I hope you are both well

Regarding Hazlitt's books and especially "Thinking as a science",
it seems that they can be read online here:

http://mises.org/books/thinking.pdf for thinking as a science
http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&Id=170 for many of
his other books.

Thanks for your work

François Rose

[Thank you very much, François, for these links. Although I receive
the daily article from mises.org and often go into their archives of
articles, I did not realize that there were actual books by Hazlitt
and other writers (besides Mises himself) available online there.
Great find and a wealth of information and much wisdom available to
all. Spread the word!

Link for all books online at mises.org -
http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=subject&Id=117

The big drawbacks to online books at this stage in technology for me
is that I must read them on my computer at my desk (or laptop set up
somewhere) and I can't make the notes I typically do in the margins.
Yes, I know Kindle by Amazon looks promising, but it's not yet as good
as having the text on paper in front of me. On the other hand, one can
do a word or phrase text search with the online version - a real plus
sometimes.

**Kitty]

--- In morelife@yahoogroups.com, Paul Wakfer <paul@...> wrote:

> What you have missed above (and the most important aspect for me) is
> the pure enjoyment that one can get from thinking, analyzing,
> creating and actually effecting a practical solution. Often the
> method and practice of the process, far from being an odious task
> whose only benefit is the result, is more enjoyable than the result
> obtained. I think that perhaps you also do not realize that the
> so-called "scientific method" is merely a portion of rational
> analysis and logical thought applied to the physical world.
>
> [This is a good point at which to mention the availability, after
> many years out of print, of Henry Hazlitt's fantastic book,
> _Thinking as a Science_. I only recently learned that it was
> published in paperback in 2005; the copy we have is one Paul
> acquired back in the late 1970s.
> Hazlitt wrote this book in 1916 - 93 years ago, when he was but 21
> years old! (The 1969 edition received scant changes as Hazlitt
> explains in his forward, which I hope is retained in this new 2005
> edition. Instead he wrote a fairly short epilogue for those items
> that he would have done differently if he were writing on the
> subject for the first time, or it could be considered an addendum.)
> It was really done as a way of teaching himself how to be an
> effective thinker. The wisdom (as well as errors) from some of his
> contemporaries and predecessors, his own observations and methods
> are fascinating for their keen discernment and are not outdated by
> recent neuroscience findings and are ones I found to be presented in
> a most interesting and helpful manner.
>
> How to think in an analytical evaluative manner is something that
> very few people learn in their youth and large numbers never learn,
> to any significant degree. It is an area of study not included in
> grade schools and high schools. And educators beyond that level
> assume that their students have learned how to think or they would
> not be there.
> Too often a student finds understanding complex subjects highly
> difficult because s/he does not know how to *really* think. The
> first
> two chapters of Hazlitt's book are an excellent non-technical
> description of what thinking is and how it is most effectively
> used. (Several times I found myself amazed at the depth of
> understanding coming from someone only 21 years old.)
>
> It is clear to me that going through the process of discovery and
> practice that Hazlitt explains in this, his first book, went a
> very long way towards enabling him to later understand and explain
> economics as skillfully as he did in numerous articles and several
> books - writings that are timeless in their assessment of common
> ideas and actions that fall under the classification of economics
> for their consequences.
>
> Hazlitt's books at mises.org - http://www.mises.org/store/Hazlitt-
Collection-C37.aspx
> Hazlitt's books at Amazon.com - http://tinyurl.com/73vqe7
>
> **Kitty]