Perhaps his wife has been compelled to give evidence against him; he remembers that, he scores it up, and henceforth there is no peace for either of them! Frequent convictions follow, ultimately the wife has to claim the protection of the law, and gets a separation order on account of his cruelty.

Henceforward he is an outcast, his children and friends cast him off, for they are afraid of him.

But he lives on, and many have to suffer because he has lost a limb.
We read a great deal about the development of character through suffering, and well I know the purifying effects suffering has upon our race; but it is well sometimes to look at the reverse side, and consider what evil follows in the wake of suffering.
Blind men, the deaf and the dumb and the physically disabled need our pitiful consideration.

Some of the sweetest, cleverest, bravest men I know suffer from great physical disabilities, but they have pleasures and compensations, they live useful lives, their compensations have produced light and sweetness, they are not useless in a busy world, they are not mere cumberers of the ground.

They were trained for usefulness whilst they were young.
But a far different case is presented with the disabled among the very poor.