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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    that he looked afterwards as if he had passed through a great spiritual crisis. As Miss Ellice Hopkins truly says, his most marked peculiarity was the intensely emotional character of his intellect. In approaching his solution of many moral problems we must always bear this in mind, and also we must remember that in many ways he needed ballast. In spite of this, however, here and there, and, in fact, in the greater part of his work and conclusions, we must also remember that we are dealing with a seer, one who could, and did, pierce the veil of the commonplace and so-called material facts of life and see beyond. In this very matter of music he says : 441 perceive how music represents the universe. It is an ideal, and it is emphatically a representative of the universe because it especially embraces discords, things evil in themselves, yet making an essential part of the perfection of the whole.'” His study of pictures came later, and his analysis of these, even more than that of
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