Hinton, JAMES

Hinton, JAMES, aurist and metaphysician, was born in 1822, son of a Baptist minister, studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and, after much travel, settled about 1850 to a London practice, ultimately becoming a specialist in aurial surgery. From 1862 till 1874 he was a lecturer on this department at Guy's Hospital. He died 16th December 1875. In his lifetime he published Man and his Dwelling-place (1859), Life in Nature (1862), and the Mystery of Pain (1865); and after his death appeared, with other works, Philosophy and Religion (1881) and The Law-breaker and Coming of the Law (1884). These books contain striking and suggestive things enough, but their author evidently took himself too seriously as a metaphysician, as has also been done by a handful of disciples. See his Life and Letters, by Ellice Hopkins (1878).