The terrible truth that pain is a mode through which man may realise himself exercises a wonderful fascination over the world, it is rarely in the world’s history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty ... The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. It was necessary that pain should be put forward as a mode of self-realisation.
Pain has reference to wrong, unhealthy, unjust surroundings, it is not the ultimate mode of perfection, merely provisional and a protest. When the wrong, and the disease, and the injustice are removed, it will have no further place, it will have done its great work.