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    Sight to the Blind
    Sight to the Blind
    Sight to the Blind
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    Sight to the Blind

    By Lucy S. Furman

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Sight to the Blind - Lucy S. Furman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sight to the Blind, by Lucy Furman

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Sight to the Blind

      Author: Lucy Furman

      Release Date: April 11, 2004 [EBook #11998]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIGHT TO THE BLIND ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      SIGHT TO THE BLIND

      A STORY

      BY

      LUCY FURMAN

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

      IDA TARBELL

      1914

      TO HARRIET BUTLER

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION BY IDA M. TARBELL SIGHT TO THE BLIND AFTERWORD

      The illustrations reproduced in the Introduction to this volume have been selected from those in Miss Furman's Mothering on Perilous.

      Introduction Ida M. Tarbell

      Introduction

      A more illuminating interpretation of the settlement idea than Miss Furman's stories Sight to the Blind and Mothering on Perilous does not exist. Spreading what one has learned of cheerful, courageous, lawful living among those that need it has always been recognized as part of a man's work in the world. It is an obligation which has generally been discharged with more zeal than humanity. To convert at the point of a sword is hateful business. To convert by promises of rewards, present or future, is hardly less hateful. And yet much of the altruistic work of the world has been done by one or a union of these methods.

      That to which we have converted men has not always been more satisfactory than our way of going at it. It has often failed to make radical changes in thought or conduct. Our reliance has been on doctrines, conventions, the three R's. They are easily sterile—almost sure to be if the teacher's spirit is one of cock-sure pride in the superiority of his religion and his cultivation.

      The settlement in part at least is the outgrowth of a desire to find a place in which certain new notions of enlightening men and women could be freely tested and applied. The heart of the idea lies in its name. The modern bearers of good tidings instead of handing down principles and instructions at intervals from pulpit or desk settle among those who need them. They keep open house the year around for all, and to all who will, give whatever they have learned of the art of life. They are neighbors and comrades, learners as well as teachers.

      It would be hard to find on the globe a group of people who need more this sort of democratic hand-to-hand contact than those Miss Furman describes, or a group with whom it is a greater satisfaction to establish it. Tucked away on the tops and slopes of the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee are thousands of families, many of them descendants of the best of English stock. Centuries of direful poverty combined with almost complete isolation from the life of the world has not been able to take from them their look of race, or corrupt their brave, loyal, proud hearts. Encircled as they are by the richest and most highly cultivated parts of this country, near as they are to us in blood, we have done less for their enlightenment than for that of the Orient, vastly less than we do for every new-come immigrant. On the religious side all that they have had is the occasional itinerant preacher, thundering at them of the wrath of God; and on the cultural what Aunt Dalmanutha calls the pindling district school. In the teachings of both

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