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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    the good of that need arises from the fact that the need itself is, or should be, for service. So pleasure is an incident, not an end. The tendencies express the needs, and the fulfilling of the needs is pleasure. As Hinton says : 44 We cannot even eat our dinners rightly, cannot have our relations right to mere dead flesh of beast and bird and roots of the earth, till our thoughts are off pleasure as a first cause.” Hinton knew a great secret. It is not enough to restrain passion. The passion itself must be right. It is a mistake to imagine that in any world restraint of passion would suffice for virtue. The people who would spiritualise passion must first humanise it. The best-meaning people often make a mistake in this matter, and it is from this wrong conception that they inculcate into young healthy creatures a code of morality that both their natural and mystic intuitions repudiate. The child is often nearer the seer than the rigid moralist
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