l'éducation déplorable de notre système sensitif. Pour faire des hommes résistants et hardis, dit-il, il faut utiliser les longues hivers des innérimines. Dans les pays aux saisons alternativement brûlantes et glacées ou ceux où il y a des brouillards froids et peu de lumière, qui sont battus par les ouragans, ceux dont la terre est pauvre et couverte de rochers. C'est dans de telles régions qu'on pourrait placer les écoles destinées à la formation d'une élite dure et ardente. Les générations qui viennent trouveront dans les "Camp de Jeunesse" et les "Camp de Travail" l'éducation rude des corps, sans laquelle il ne peut exister de peuple vraiment fort. Pour nous, chrétiens, la résistance physique à la souffrance appelle d'autres réflexions. 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Un si parfait mépris et une si complète certitude passaient dans mes paroles, que je vis les complices échanger, malgré eux, un rapide regard de complicité. Acceptée avec résignation parce qu'elle est l'expression de la Volonté divine, la souffrance devient une source d'élévation morale et de sanctification. La souffrance physique, comme la souffrance morale, est une éducatrice. Elle spiritualise l'homme, l'oblige à se dominer. La maladie, les infirmités retranchent l'homme du monde. Le forcent à se replier, à se concentrer sur lui-même. Tout le temps perdu pour les relations mondaines, les allées et venues, les distractions futiles est gagné par la méditation, la vie intérieure. L'être que la souffrance isole apprend à se connaître et à se maîtriser. La présence continue de la douleur énergise son cœur, elle lui permet d'entendre les cris de souffrance des autres, cris et larmes que lui masquaient les multiples soucis et préoccupations de la vie actuelle que nous menons tous. Elle affine sa sensibilité, augmente son aptitude ressentir et ouvre par là les voies de la pitié et de la charité, dans certains cas, de la sainteté. C'est pour elle qu'une sainte Thérèse de Lisieux atteint au plus haut degré de la spiritualité. "Chez l'homme qui se soumet à l'épreuve qui lui est imposée, la souffrance peut réaliser une exaltation des qualités ou du génie. Quelle part cette acceptation de la douleur a-t-elle