Page:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, v. 3.djvu/847

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The Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind has for its object the affording of a thorough general and musical education to the youthful blind of both sexes vho possess the requisite talent, so as to qualify them for self-maintenance. The Report of the institution states that

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As it will be impossible in this article to give any lengthened account of the institutions on the Continent and in America, we will briefly sketch the plan of working in a few of the most progressive. The following extracts from addresses delivered at the first European Congress of Teachers of the Blind at Vienna in 1873, will best give an insight into the schools of Saxony:—

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