Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Biography of the Blind, or the Lives of Such as Have Distinguished Themselves as Poets, Philosophers, Artists Etc
The branch of biography which the following pages exhibit, has not, until now, been entered on as a distinct subject. In all preceding wo1ks, the lives of the blind have been classed and confounded with those of others; and though individuals have been pointed out as objects of admiration and astonishment, yet no work has appeared in which they have been considered in a proper point of view, as a class of men seemingly separated from society; cut off from the whole visible world, and deprived of the most val uable faculty that man can possess; yet, in many in stances, overcoming all those difficulties which would have been thought insurmountable, had not experi ence proved the contrary.
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