. Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York . ly accom-plish is to inspire the blind with a belief that they may still achievesomething, in spite of their great deprivation, and that, withpatience and perseverance in the substitution of the other sensesfor the missing one, many channels which had seemed closed tothem in their first overwhelming sense of loss may still be open tothe blind as to the seeing. In their last report covering the workfor the year 1906, after four years additional experience and thestudy of the problems involved
. Report of the Commission of 1906 to Investigate the Condition of the Blind in the State of New York . ly accom-plish is to inspire the blind with a belief that they may still achievesomething, in spite of their great deprivation, and that, withpatience and perseverance in the substitution of the other sensesfor the missing one, many channels which had seemed closed tothem in their first overwhelming sense of loss may still be open tothe blind as to the seeing. In their last report covering the workfor the year 1906, after four years additional experience and thestudy of the problems involved, regarding the purpose of the work,the trustees say: While its aim is to make the learners helpfulto themselves and others, and as little burdensome as possible totheir families and to the communities in which they live, we cannothope to make them self-supporting save to a very limited are rarely such as will admit this possibility, and theattitude of these blind pupils of mature years precludes the attain-ment of this object and relegates it to a position of This young woman and two men, with defective vision, have found nodifficulty in maintaining their positions among seeing operatives in aMassachusetts hairpin factory.
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