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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    no one. This was on December 16th, 1875, when he was fifty-three years of age. What is the particular line of thought which this extraordinary man has left us to work out ? What object had he before him in searching out and combining so many curious and interesting details of psychology and metaphysics ? Hinton always looked on the art of the teacher as superior to that of the doctor, and he considered it monstrous that children should be taught nothing of morals and of their duties as citizens. This many-sided man was pre-eminently a teacher—a great moral teacher more than anything else— and all the arts he loved helped him to his moral conclusions. He was a passionate lover of music, and it gave him intense delight to follow the way in which music was constructed. He used to bury his face in his hands when something he liked was being played at the Monday Popular Concerts, and those who were near him said
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