The mystery of pain / with an introduction by James R. Nichols.

  • James Hinton
Date:
1890
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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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    seems strange in such a nature, his relig- ion v/as to a considerable extent of the emotional kind. The cure for pain which he brings to view rests on a religious basis, and hence has no meaning or sig- nificance to those destitute of religious faith. Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the book is that devoted to a consid- eration of the uses of pain. It is difficult, hov/ever, to coincide in many of the thoughts or views presented; as they do not meet the instances of suffering which come under ordinary observation. We find ourselves in darkness, unable to answer irrepressible questions, even when we extend our thought beyond self, and endeavor to discern ends or designs which are beneficent in their nature. It is not often easy to discover any necessary con- nection between our miseries and the
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