Privilege of Pain

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Philosophy, Health & Fitness

Authors: Caroline Kane Mills Everett In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

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Introduction
Health And Strength
Soldiers and a Sailor
Ill-Health and its Relation to Genius
Among the Poets
Novelists
Physical Perfection and its Relation to Civilization
The Physically Handicapped Philosophers
Astronomers and Mathematicians
Statesmen and Politicians
The Freedom of Ill-Health
Artists; Musicians
Three Physicians, a Naturalist and a Chemist; Inventors
Historians and Men of Letters
Protestant Reformers
The Saints
Pain, the Great Teacher; Conclusion

We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be clearly understood, that I do not maintain that it is preferable to be ill than well, but only that each state has its own peculiar privileges, which are rarely interchangeable. Health and sickness are merely different roads to achievement. The earth requires rain as well as sunshine; we need both tears and laughter; navvies are necessary and so are philosophers. The book details how people from many professions who had some or other physical disability or pain reached their goals. The introduction is by Kate Douglas Wiggin. - Summary by Stav Nisser and the conclusion of the book.