C. S. LEWIS In the preface to The roblem of ain, Lewis limits the scope of his book by writing: No one can say “He jests at scars who never felt a wound?” for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under- estimating this adversary, I am that man. I must add, too, that the only purpose of the book is to solve the intellectual problem raised by suffering; for the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I never was fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that pain is to be borne, except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of…
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