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Privilege of Pain by Caroline Kane Mills Everett

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

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06:28
Introduction
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05:05
Health And Strength
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07:49
Soldiers and a Sailor
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06:13
Ill-Health and its Relation to Genius
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14:17
Among the Poets
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10:21
Novelists
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08:25
Physical Perfection and its Relation to Civilization
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09:48
The Physically Handicapped Philosophers
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03:03
Astronomers and Mathematicians
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05:53
Statesmen and Politicians
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04:16
The Freedom of Ill-Health
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04:16
Artists; Musicians
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03:36
Three Physicians, a Naturalist and a Chemist; Inventors
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15:52
Historians and Men of Letters
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03:37
Protestant Reformers
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09:55
The Saints
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11:07
Pain, the Great Teacher; Conclusion
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