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 15 impressions more lixedly on the memory, they even surpass those that see. ls it not, therefore, the duty of the press to make an end of a darkness that has lasted so long? In our present age, where all sorts of humane endeavours rank uppermost, where we show all possible sympathy to individuals who on account of the crimes they committed have forfeited all sympathy of the human society, we can surely not overlook the poor blind, who gives us so many wonderful proofs of the activity of his intellect, if his mind receives the required cultivation. Not every one of the many thousand blind persons living both in our native country and in other states, can be provided for in a proper institution, as not every one has the means of paying the necessary outlays. These poor creatures remain, therefore, without education, and they are surely the most pitiable beings extant. It is not without compassion that we can look on such an unfortunate blind individual among us. Those who have early been put into an institution, and have been instructed in religion, reading, writing, and different kinds of work, have the advantage that they can employ their time usefully. They can write by the aid of the apparatus, in the manner just shown by me, and thus satisfy this want with blind or seeing individuals. But they are yet in want of the most important thing, namely a well-sorted library, which extends over all the auxiliary sciences, with which the blind would only then become acquainted. ' The press, established in the manner above described, can supply them with it, if the printer claims it for that purpose, and if the required capability of return be extant. There are small provinces, which are provided with printing-offices for those that see, but the 30,000 blind individuals of Germany ") are not yet provided with a printing—oftice for their proper use! · eesrdtn to Kl•.•i¤`• sumiou cnn are more blind y ls •¤•¤n than ws an swan of or are £.i`i$$'.iilliZ°%¤`Z.°'.iiZlZi.i.i`. °i`i.i;“i.mfI£`Zi iZi°”&•(i°'si'iE'i;`lII£Yk°¤i? .$':‘Z$:’t1‘.i’.‘;‘..‘d.;f.'£‘l1‘.‘1 L“‘,‘1T"££.f7.’d.n“,L22.t'..'£.£°I?&t?3£‘t‘l£“‘§..§SS.°;.r*‘ft.‘.‘L° .'I.E‘J‘.'1.~2£..“l.2$,‘£&;"..'?°:'.‘£‘.¤‘Z?..*.".2$1lti‘.‘i {gi";} .’°.Z'•¥I. ‘Zr‘t»“Ir°i1$‘a‘i£:'2.'21}&£.‘§£‘¥.*tt?:2;,”:.’*.‘I’a:‘ {Ji; ,°Z°..`£ii';°Z$IdiI,ZaZiZi'nX£ led, but vhost nind is at present bm-led in double darkness.