A Century and a Qttarter Later-How Far have we Progressed?

Under the head “New School for the Indigent Blind, St. George's Fields,” a London publication announced the opening in 1835 of a new building for an institution then about thirty-six years old, in England. Remembering that it reflected the views and aspirations of people a century and a quarter ago, one reads this today with some serious concern about the modest degree of advancement in theory and resources that so many intervening generations have brought to bear on dealing with blindness. The account is from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, of Saturday, February 21, 1835. — Ed.