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Excerpt from Beauties and Achievements of the Blind
It is not surprising that under such formidable opposition and depreciating in?uences, the blind themselves have, generally speaking, lost sight of the examples which their illustrious pre decessors set before them, and have adopted the degrading sen timent of can't do anything. Having lost all confidence in themselves, they beg without shame or compunction of con science, and advert only to their sightless eyes as an excuse for choosing this disgracefiil method Of protracting life, when we need not the sagacity of a philosopher to discover that, in ninety nine hundredths Of these cases, their dependence might be more justly attributed to a want of industry and an enterprising spirit, and perhaps a little kindly encouragement on the part of community. Notwithstanding the magnanimous efforts that have been made to elevate the social, moral and intellectual condition of this class, we find an appeal to sympathy painfully prevalent in almost all their transactions with society.
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