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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    ethics. Hinton would say, Love your neighbour as yourself, because you realise through your own needs and development what are your neighbours needs. Neither a thwarted, crushed self nor a thwarted, crushed neighbour is a fulfilling of the law of service, as Hinton understood service or love. In these matters we are not to cast out self in a mock heroism or forced sacrifice, any more than in service or love we are to cast out sense. We are to fulfil the demands of a real self and a sane service in order to get rid of a false self and an artificial service. It is the having self alone, apart from service, which is the stupid thing, because then the self is false, even to itself. It is always to be the self for and in with others from the first. Not pleasure first, but service and good first, and then all the pleasure it is possible to have. Self-virtue is bound to bring self-pleasure in its train. This is what people cannot and will not
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