Sue Anderson
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James Wilson Blind Biographer seventeen seventy five eighteen forty five.
Wilson's introduction to the eighteen thirty five edition of his Biography of the Blind or Lives of Such as have distinguished themselves as poets, philosophers, artists, etc.
as well as a few particulars of the life of the author.
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Introduction
The branch of biography which the following pages exhibit
Has not until now
have been entered on as a distinct subject.
In all preceding works the lives of the blind have been classed and confounded with those of others, and though the individuals have been pointed out as objects of admiration and astonishment
Yet no work has appeared in which they have been considered to
In a proper point of view.
As a class of men seemingly separated from society, cut off as it were, from the whole visible world.
And deprived of the most valuable faculty that man can possess,
Yet, in many instances, overcoming all those difficulties which would have been thought insurmountable
Had not experience proved the contrary?
In the pursuit of knowledge the blind have been very successful and
And many of them have acquired the first literary honors that their own or foreign universities could confer.
In the different branches of philosophy, if they have not excelled, they have been equal to many of their contemporaries.
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