The mystery of pain / with an introduction by James R. Nichols.
- James Hinton
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The mystery of pain / with an introduction by James R. Nichols. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![are its bright places rather, the culminat- ing points at which humanity has dis- played its true glory, and reached its per- fect level. An irrepressible pride and gladness are the feelings they elicit: a pride which no regret can drown, a glad- ness no indignation overpower. Conceive all martyrdoms blotted out from the world's history; how blank and barren were the page! There are the materials, then, evidently within us for an entire inversion of our at- titude towards pain. The world in this respect, we might almost feel, seems to tremble on the balance. A touch might transform it wholly. One flash of light from the Unseen, one word spoken by God, might suffice to make the dark places bright, and wrap the sorrow-stricken heart of man in the wonder of an unutterable glory. If all pain might be seen in the light of martyrdom; if the least and lowest in man's poor and puny life—or shai] we](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21218742_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
