Excerpt from The Blind: Their Condition and the Work Being Done for Them in the United States
In the present study the field of inquiry in respect to the blind has been limited to the United States, except in so far as an account is necessary of the operations in foreign countries in the way of affording instruction to blind children and of devising a system of raised print, as an introduction to the work in this country. References are accordingly only to American sources, save as to a restricted number of publications in England dealing with the two subjects mentioned, with popular conceptions regarding the blind, and occasionally with other matters.
To have extended the scope of the study to include countries besides the United States, even for general comparative purposes, would have required a visit to those countries, with protracted investigations. Such a survey, furthermore, would have expanded the work to dimensions far too great for a volume of the contemplated size. Yet because of the number of persons who have become blind in other lands as a result of present world conditions, very keen is our regret that our study may not relate to them. Perhaps for such its greatest service may lie in the presentation of what has been attempted to be made a thorough and accurate statement of the condition of the blind in America and of the work being done for them here.
For all that has been set down the writer must alone accept the responsibility. For generous assistance, however, of one kind and another rendered to him by others he gladly acknowledges his gratitude.
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