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Excerpt from The Conquest of Blindness
Every year hundreds of children are born who are never destined to know the blessing of sight; others in youth or in the prime of life are overtaken by blindness from constitutional causes or as the result of an accident. And in old age the fading eyesight often ends in total inability to see. It is my hope that all may find help and encourage ment from this book, though it is to those who are stricken with blindness in the midst of the active years of their life that it is mainly addressed. Much that is written here was included in my book, Victory over Blindnessi a record of the work at St. Dunstan's, and there is no blinded person who may not find amazing inspiration and encourage ment in the example of our soldiers blinded in the Great War, and in the fact that practically all of them set to work to overcome their handicap and succeeded. They are now leading happy and useful lives, earning a living by their own exertions, entering into all kinds of recreations, enjoying what is as nearly as possible a normal existence, and finding in the conquest of their handicap a pleasure which has gone far to make up to them for their terrible loss.
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