The Privilege of Pain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Privilege of Pain, credited to Caroline Kane Mills Everett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Privilege of Pain by Caroline Kane Mills Everett. Read in English by Beth Thomas; Kassie Yang; Jim Locke; John; Linda Johnson; Phil Schempf; Nichalia Schwartz; Brian James 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 philosophers. The book details how people from many professions who had some or other physical disability or pain reached their goals. The introduction is by Kate Douglas Wiggin. - Summary by Stav Nisser and the conclusion of the book.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Privilege of Pain
• Author credits: Caroline Kane Mills Everett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 2:10:01

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• suffering
• pain
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 6:28
2. 01 - Health And Strength — 5:05
3. 02 - Soldiers and a Sailor — 7:49
4. 03 - Ill-Health and its Relation to Genius — 6:13
5. 04 - Among the Poets — 14:17
6. 05 - Novelists — 10:21
7. 06 - Physical Perfection and its Relation to Civilization — 8:25
8. 07 - The Physically Handicapped Philosophers — 9:48
9. 08 - Astronomers and Mathematicians — 3:03
10. 09 - Statesmen and Politicians — 5:53
11. 10 - The Freedom of Ill-Health — 4:16
12. 11 - Artists; Musicians — 4:15
13. 12 - Three Physicians, a Naturalist and a Chemist; Inventors — 3:36
14. 13 - Historians and Men of Letters — 15:52
15. 14 - Protestant Reformers — 3:37
16. 15 - The Saints — 9:55
17. 16 - Pain, the Great Teacher; Conclusion — 11:07

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