Three modern seers / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis.

  • Edith Ellis
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Three modern seers / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hinton believed that the true idea of the mystery of pain will be born out of the death of the false idea of pain. He realised very clearly that the pain we suffer is often suffering we make for ourselves, because we do not like the idea of giving. We all know, if we have suffered acutely, that when we go through any great crisis, bodily or spiritual, we are giving to others through the things we learn and the way we de- velop. We are being ground by God’s wheel of necessity, not only for our own good, but for the good of others, so that ultimately we can see, even here on earth, that every pain we bear and conquer has had “ forward ends.” Hinton looked upon pain as nutrition, and the service and human love which ought always to be a result of that as function. It is not pain itself, according to Hinton, which is evil, but pain seen by itself, as the discord in music seems a jar until it melts into a harmony. Here, once
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