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Excerpt from On the Blind, and Institutions for the Blind, in Europe: A Letter to the President of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind
There was one subject connected with the blind, that interested me, perhaps, more than any other whilst abroad, and my interest in it continues unabated. It has long been the earnest desire of those who have considered the best means of instruction for the blind, that a uniform type should be adopted for all books designed for them; and I was pleased to find, that the subject was engaging the attention of many philanthropists, and especially of the Rev. Wm. Taylor, with whom I had the good fortune to be come well acquainted soon after my arrival in London, and who appears to me to possess enlightened views on the whole subject of the education of the blind. He has had ample and varied expo ricuce as honorary superintendent of the York Institution, many years ago; has visited the different asylums of Great Britain and the European continent; and for a long period has directed his powers of correct observation and re?ection to every point con nected with the well -being of the blind.
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