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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: those gallant intellectual leads. If fear is an ancient instinctive
boundary that the modern life, the aristocratic life, is bound to
ignore and transcend, may this not also be the case with pain? We
do a little adventure into the "life beyond fear"; may we not also
think of adventuring into the life beyond pain? Is pain any saner a
warning than fear? May not pain just as much as fear keep us from
possible and splendid things? But why ask a question that is
already answered in principle in every dentist's chair? Benham's
idea, however, went much further than that, he was clearly
suggesting that in pain itself, pain endured beyond a certain pitch,
there might come pleasure again, an intensity of sensation that
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