19 It is possible, and so I hope, that, by means of the instant Judgment of the Court, the “dark night 69” of the members of the Sawhoyamaxa Community be drawing to an end. The respondent State showed signs, in parts of both the briefs it filed with the Court in the instant case, of its disposition to comply faithfully with the Judgment of the Court. 52. Human suffering still is a mystery interwoven into the existence of each and every one of us. Though the centuries, it has been reflected upon by theologists, philosophers, and writers (and, on a lower scale, even by jurists). However, in my view, they have not achieved a convincing explanation, or found a satisfactory answer to its presence all along human existence. Some —mostly theologists and philosophers— have found some consolation in dwelling on its temporary or passing character (given the brief time span life tends to have), and the quest for transcendental support to withstand it. 53. But how can we explain the suffering of innocent children? How can we understand the fate of a child born on the roadside, who fleetly passes through this life and the dies on the same roadside? More than an absurdity, it is a great injustice, a suffering caused by man to his fellow men. Great part of human suffering is caused by man; that was what was pointed out, for example, by C.S. Lewis in his study on The Problem of Pain (1940), wherein he reminds us the views by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on the importance of knowing the existence of evil, in order to face it and not letting it take over 70. Almost a century before that, in his considerations On the Suffering of the World (1850), A. Schopenhauer warned on the sad predicament of those who "lived tormented lives in poverty and wretchedness, without recognition, without sympathy", while all the advantages and benefits "went to the unworthy"71, —in order to express his own lack of conformity with such a situation: "(...) Existence is typified by unrest. In such aworld, where no stability of any kind, no enduring state is possible, where everything is involved in restless change and confusion and keeps itself on its tightrope only by continually striding forward, — in such a world, happiness is not so much as to be thought of 72.” 54. It would be hard to find an explanation for human suffering. Those intellectually honest are likely to spend their life searching for it, and this search is all they may aspire to do. Recently a 91-years-old theologist decided to make public an account of the personal dialogues he had with Albert Camus, 40 years after the tragic death of this great 20th century writer, an agnostic and profound researcher on the human soul. In his account, he told of the desperate, and fruitless, search by A. Camus (moved by his faith, more human than religious) for an explanation of the unfortunate human condition, and of his outburst once: 69 . To paraphrase the famous meditations by St. John of the Cross, in the 16th century. 70 . C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, N.Y., Harper Collins, 1996 [reed.], pages 123-124, and cf. pages 86 and 117. 71 . A. Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World, London, Penguin, 2004 [rred.], page 132. 72 . Ibid., page 18.