Excerpt from The Autobiography of the Blind James Wilson, Author of the "Lives of the Useful Blind": With a Preliminary Essay on His Life, Character, and Writings, as Well as on the Present State of the Blind

Dr. Guillie, in his work on the Blind (which was translated into English in 1819, and dedicated to Dr. Jenner, and a copy of which is seldom to be found by those who want it), enters at some length on the question of the tendency of the blind to atheism, and those who are familiar with the writings of Prescott know how thoroughly established was the atheism of the renowned blind Dr. Nicholas Saunderson, and his reasons for it given on his death-bed. Alas! Said the dying philosopher, I have been condemned to pass my life in darkness, and you speak to me of prodigies which I cannot comprehend, and which can only be felt by you, and those who see like you l When reminded of the faith of Newton, Leibnitz, and Clarke, minds from whom he had drank so deeply of instruction.

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