Excerpt from The Privilege of Pain
However there was no acrimony in the discussion that followed the reading of the paper nor any desire to withhold honor where honor was so gloriously due.
Those who disbelieved in the validity of pain; those who were convinced that mind is not only superior to, but able to win complete triumph over matter; those who felt that laying hold of the Great Source of Healing and Power would en able them not only to deny but to defy pain, these naturally were not completely in accord with the writer.
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