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Excerpt from: American Notes Ye who have eyes and see not, and have ears and hear not; ye who are as the hypocrites of sad countenances, and disfigure your faces that ye may seem unto men to fast; learn healthy cheerfulness, and mild contentment, from the deaf, and dumb, and blind! Self-elected saints with gloomy brows, this sightless, earless, voiceless child may teach you lessons you will do well to follow.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | American Notes | |
| Creator: | Charles Dickens (author) | |
| Date: | 1874 | |
| Format: | Book | |
| Publisher: | Chapman and Hall | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.33-51 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Asylums; Blind; Boston, MA; Children; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Disease; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Laura Bridgman; MASS MEDIA, CULTURE & THE ARTS; Massachusetts; Media; Moral Literature; Perkins School For The Blind; Poverty; Religion; Samuel Gridley Howe; Schools; Sensory Disability; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Social Welfare & Communities; Travel |
