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Show PROFIT DERIVED FROM PAIN Perhaps after all the unplea ml things may have iheir value ami thai value may sometimes b greater than the good that comes quite sugar coated. Anyway It is odd that alter Milton quarreli d with his wile he should hayt smitten about hell and ihe fall of man through woman's disregard of law so brilllant-ly brilllant-ly that "Paradise Lost" is tbe one great poem in English while "Para dise Regained" is a dull and prosy almost al-most mediocre thing. r that Samuel Butler. Intellectual youth with a clergical father who made his early life a burden, should have made his chief bid for la-iing H fame with "Tho Way of All Flesh." a I biting satire on the English estab-l lished church And too Anatole Prance found the! Inspiration for "The Crime of Sylves- : tre Bonnard," the book which won the French academy prize, in the boorish, vulgar behavior of a drunken ancle 1 whose lascivious tales of adventures j in the Napoleanic wars made France's I mother blush for shame in her own bouse. There was .Montaigne who Buffered terrible pain Iroru a chronic dlseasi I most ot his Hie and who in thl Inter- ! valu ot agony wrote scores of moral essays the best of which deal with I pain and death There ap no more Wonderful love letters in the world than those of Abelard and Heloise. whose lives were spent almost fully in abject sorrow and misery. There are hundreds more Maybe, there's a way to make capital capi-tal from suffering, profit from pain and to turn troubles to the other fel-1 low s advantage if not to your own j |