Blind People: Their Works And Ways; With Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind Men
The book Blind People: Their Works And Ways; With Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind Men was written by author Johns, Bennett George, 1820 Or 21-1900 Here you can read free online of Blind People: Their Works And Ways; With Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind Men book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Blind People: Their Works And Ways; With Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind Men a good or bad book?
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barbarous looking symbols Z - S / <• / "^ / ^, J - One lunar line will suffice to show the aspect of the whole system to the eye of the seeing, and to the finger of the blind boy : — a man's own geese a nAA// on/v irrvr TO HIM AEE ALL SWANS.
_ o on A\r /nll /n/w/ Whatever claims these arbitrary systems may have on the blind boy's notice, one fatal defect runs through them all, viz., that they tend to cut him off more than ever from the rest of the world, and espe- cially from those who are able to read, and to help him when he comes to a hard word. The task of learn- ing Moon, Frere, or Lucas, is to him like learning a new language ; with this difference, that when he has learned it, and hard work in the course of years has deadened his sense of touch, not a single friend or companion at home will understand it, or be able to read with the eye the mysterious symbols which the reading-finger can no longer discern. Twenty years ago, shrewd old Abbe* Carton spoke to this very point : " En effet," he says, " si un caractere, connu des clair- voyants, est employe dans l'impression en relief pour Chap.
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