Excerpt from Blind People: Their Works and Ways, With Sketches of the Lives of Some Famous Blind Men

Information concerning many other famous Blind people was of far too brief and fragmentary a kind to admit of being woven into a continuous story. A few, therefore, of the more complete cases have been selected as specimens, and to these some addition may perhaps be made at a future time. The scanty leisure of a busy life has been heartily given to the task of rendering this little book as complete as the author could make it, and though no one can be more conscious of its imperfections than himself, it may still serve to convey, he hopes, a fair and true picture of a class in whose welfare he takes a deep and unbroken interest.

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