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The privilege of pain
Leo, Mrs. Everett and Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Pain has privileges: Mrs. Everett's startling claim, defended through soldiers, sailors, poets, and novelists who learned in suffering what they taught in song. Ill-health and genius keep close company in her chapters, from the limits of physical perfection to affliction's strange gifts. A consoling, contrary little study. For anyone who hurts and wonders why.
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22 chapters
- 1THE PRIVILEGE OF PAIN
- 2INTRODUCTION
- 3I HEALTH AND STRENGTH
- 4II SOLDIERS AND A SAILOR
- 5III ILL-HEALTH AND ITS RELATION TO GENIUS
- 6IV AMONG THE POETS “THEY LEARN IN SUFFERING WHAT THEY TEACH IN SONG”
- 7V NOVELISTS
- 8VI PHYSICAL PERFECTION AND ITS RELATION TO CIVILIZATION
- 9VII THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PHILOSOPHERS
- 10VIII ASTRONOMERS AND MATHEMATICIANS
- 11IX STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS
- 12X THE FREEDOM OF ILL-HEALTH
- 13XI ARTISTS
- 14XII MUSICIANS
- 15XIII THREE PHYSICIANS, A NATURALIST AND A CHEMIST
- 16XIV INVENTORS
- 17XV HISTORIANS AND MEN OF LETTERS
- 18XVI PROTESTANT REFORMERS
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