Thomas Troward
<p >Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" >India</a>. His <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocation" title="Avocation" >avocation</a> was the study of comparative religion.
After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Troward set out to apply logic and a judicial weighing of evidence in the study of matters of cause and effect.<sup id="cite_ref-judah_1-0" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward#cite_note-judah-1" >[1]</a></sup> The philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James" title="William James" >William James</a> characterized Troward’s <i>Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science</i> as "far and away the ablest statement of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy" >philosophy</a> I have met, beautiful in its sustained clearness of thought and style, a really classic statement."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup>
According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous" title="Alcoholics Anonymous" >Alcoholics Anonymous</a> (AA) archivist Nell Wing, early AA members were strongly encouraged to read Thomas Troward's Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward#cite_note-3" >[3]</a></sup> In the opening of the 2006 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(2006_film)" title="The Secret (2006 film)" ><i>The Secret</i></a>, introductory remarks credit Troward's philosophy with inspiring the movie and its production.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Troward#cite_note-4" >[4]</a></sup>
Troward was a past president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_New_Thought_Alliance" title="International New Thought Alliance" >International New Thought Alliance</a>.
 
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