The privilege of pain
by Leo Everett
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About This Book
Excerpt from The Privilege of PainHowever there was no acrimony in the discussion that followed the reading of the paper nor any desire to withhold honor where honor was so gloriously due. Those who disbelieved in the validity of pain; those who were convinced that mind is not only superior to, but able to win complete triumph over matter; those who felt that laying hold of the Great Source of Healing and Power would en able them not only to deny but to defy pain, these naturally were not completely in accord with the writer.
Chapters (122)(click to expand)
- THE PRIVILEGE OF PAIN
- INTRODUCTION
- I HEALTH AND STRENGTH
- II SOLDIERS AND A SAILOR
- III ILL-HEALTH AND ITS RELATION TO GENIUS
- IV AMONG THE POETS “THEY LEARN IN SUFFERING WHAT THEY TEACH IN SONG”
- V NOVELISTS
- VI PHYSICAL PERFECTION AND ITS RELATION TO CIVILIZATION
- VII THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PHILOSOPHERS
- VIII ASTRONOMERS AND MATHEMATICIANS
- IX STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS
- X THE FREEDOM OF ILL-HEALTH
- XI ARTISTS
- XII MUSICIANS
- XIII THREE PHYSICIANS, A NATURALIST AND A CHEMIST
- XIV INVENTORS
- XV HISTORIANS AND MEN OF LETTERS
- XVI PROTESTANT REFORMERS
- XVII THE SAINTS
- XVIII PAIN, THE GREAT TEACHER
- XIX CONCLUSION
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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