Five Lectures on Blindness

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In 1918, these lectures were penned mainly to be addressed at the summer lessons of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles. These are published so that the details in them can be much largely disseminated, for they are the consequence of nearly a term of a thousand years spent in service for the blind, and were penned from the point of view of a vision impaired individual, searching to improve the wellness of the sightless. They were delivered not to the visionless, but to the people who can see, for the advantage that will amass to the unsighted from a greater comprehension of their concerns.

The famous book by Miss Foley as a learner in the California School for the Blind, as a volunteer educator, and in present times as resident educator for the California State Library, writes these lectures especially significant and definitive.

The Five Lectures on Blindness consists of: The Psychology of Blindness; The Blind Child and its Development; The Re-Education of the Blind Adult; The Attitude of the Public Toward the Blind; and Prevention of Blindness and Conservation of Vision in Adults and Children.

Sightlessness does not take to a detersion of the senses of touch, hearing or smell, but to a bigger acumen in the apprehension of the details provided by these senses. Diderot states, “the help which our senses reciprocally afford to each other, hinders their improvement,” and so the individual having all of these senses considers the visionless person as a wonder of intellect and talent, only for the reason that his blindness makes the rest of his senses save him, and he endures to subsist and go around and have his existence without the much valued of all physical emotions.
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