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1878 W. Besant & J. Rice Monks Thelema I. iv. 950 What then was the good of having been a leader in undergraduate advanced circles, and an acknowledged exponent of the Higher Thought?

1897 Planets & People Dec. 417/1 A magazine devoted mainly to higher thought, to reformatory ideas and improvement..cannot compete in price with those published for the masses.

1906 H. W. Dresser Health & Inner Life x. 242 The term [sc. New Thought] was apparently a convenient designation... But critics soon assailed it on the ground that the doctrine was not new, and in England the term ‘Higher Thought’ was substituted.

1909 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica vi. 124 Jim is up to the neck in Mahatmas and Theosophy and Higher Thought and rot.

1909 G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy v. 136 Of all conceivable forms of enlightenment the worst is..the Inner Light... Anyone who knows anyone from the Higher Thought Centre knows how it does work.

2002 Times (Nexis) 4 Feb. Mr Carlyle drove Mrs C mad, by sailing through life indifferent to everything but Higher Thought and dyspepsia.