If there is no light at the end of the tunnel, chronic pain can render a person dysfunctional. In desperation, people often turn to potent pain-killing medication for relief.

He turned out to be a brilliant expert on timber and on the lumber business in general, a specialist on soils, and an amazing streamliner of earth-moving work.

Fear of the world, fear of man individually, fear of loss of property or station, would all interfere, and prevent them from giving to their fellow-men, teachings, that their more receptive and mediumistic minds had been capable of receiving.

[T]herefore had Abel and his works acceptance, when Cain and his had none, becauſe he was righteous, not ſo eſteemed of God while he was not ſo indeed (as T[homas] D[anson] deems) who becauſe he ſo does, deems that God (as himſelf) deems thoſe and theirs to be good and righteous, […]