Three modern seers / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis.

  • Edith Ellis
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Three modern seers / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MYSTERY OF PAIN Pain biologically a guardian angel of the body— Also the guardian angel of the soul—Examples in life—“ Forward ends ” of pain. From a biological point of view pain is the guardian angel of the body. But for pain animal life would soon be extinguished. Pain and life are as much intertwined in the animal economy as hunger and life. H unger is an imperative need. Pain is an impera- tive warning, and so an education. Life and growth would cease in the first stage of evolution but for pain. The child cuts its finger ; it is in pain, so it learns to avoid the dangerous plaything. The cat warms itself on the table by the lamp ; it singes its fur, and, through pain, it avoids the lamp
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