A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hinton, James
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Hinton, James (1822-1875).—Writer on sociology and psychology, s. of a Baptist minister, became a successful aurist, but his attention being arrested by social questions, he gave more and more of his time to the consideration and exposition of these. Open-minded and altruistic, his books are full of thought and suggestion. Among his writings may be mentioned Man and his Dwelling-place (1859), The Mystery of Pain (1866),The Law of Human Life (1874), Chapters on the Art of Thinking (1879), and Philosophy and Religion (1881).