STUDIES IN HINTON'S ETHICS.

LIFE AND WORKS

OF THE LATE

JAMES HINTON.

LIFE AND LETTERS.

With an Introduction by Sir W. GULL, Bart., and Portrait engraved on Steel by C. H. Jeens.

Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 8s. 6d.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.

Selections from the Manuscripts of the late James Hinton.
Edited by CAROLINE HADDON.
Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 5s.

THE LAW BREAKER, AND THE COMING OF
THE LAW.

Edited by MARGARET HINTON.
Crown 8vo, 6s.

THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.
New Edition. Fcap. 8vo, IS.

LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO.

THE LARGER LIFE:

STUDIES IN HINTON'S ETHICS.

BY

CAROLINE HADDON.

WITH SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF

JAMES HINTON.

LONDON:

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

1886.

03-15-39 J.A.

3-14-39

PREFACE.

Ir frequently happens that an original thinker is not the best expounder of his own ideas. Occupied solely with the search after truth, and perhaps exhausted with the shock from the impact of fresh light, he has neither the leisure nor the power to unfold and set in order the knowledge gained, nor so to correlate it with the work of previous thinkers that it may be seen to be built up on a solid basis. He seems to say to the dwellers on the plain, “If your feet stood where mine stand, you would see what I see;" but his words carry no conviction: he cannot hew out steps in the mountain to aid the ascent of feebler minds.

Between the pathfinder in the thought-world and those who can only follow in a broad beaten track, there are a few who intervene to push aside the brambles from the path and to smooth out and widen the track by their own footprints. Incapable of discovering for themselves, they have the humbler but useful function of making the discoveries available for a wider circle, and every difficulty