Transcription of Th e Problem Pain
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The P ro b le m of Pai n By C. S. Lewis Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford r S a m i z d a t u n i v e r s i t y P r e ss Qu bec Based on the public domain etext: The Problem of Pain, by C. S. Lewis (originally published in 1940). OCR by Van Wingerden. Footnotes and punctuation restaured by Pogo. Samizdat, February 2016 (public domain under Canadian copyright law). Font: Berthold Baskerville To The Inklings Conte nts Preface 6. I Introductory 1. II Divine Omnipotence 11. III Divine Goodness 19. IV Human Wickedness 31. V The Fall of Man 41. VI Human Pain 55. VII Human Pain, continued 69. VIII Hell 75. IX Animal Pain 83. X Heaven 93. Appendix 101. The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.
brought against me. 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 pur-
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