Title:  The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl

Author:  Mary L. Day Arms

Release Date:  February 7, 2005 [EBook #14963]

Language:  English

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THE WORLD AS I HAVE FOUND IT.

Sequel to
Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl.

By Mary L. Day arms.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

By Rev. Charles F. Deems, LL.D.

Baltimore: 
Published by James young,
112 West Baltimore Street.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by
Mary L. Day arms,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

INTRODUCTION.

Mrs. Arms has asked me to write an introduction to her book.  It hardly seems to need it.  The title-page shows that it was written by one who is blind.  It is a sequel to another volume.  That volume has been widely sold, and all who read it will, I am sure, have some desire to see how the stream of the life of its writer has been flowing since her first book was written.  Her patient perseverance under privations has won her a large circle of personal friends, who will take pleasure in procuring and preserving this fresh memento of the Blind Girl.

Such a book as this has a value which, probably, has not occurred to its author.  She has put on record the phenomena of her life as she has recollected them, with great simplicity, merely for the entertainment of her readers, without attaching any importance to the value which every such memoir has in the department of science.  But it is just from the study of such phenomena as these that the students in mental and moral philosophy learn the laws of mind and the operations of a human soul under a divine, moral government.  As a matter of taste we might omit the writer’s description of her husband, whom she never yet has seen, p. 45, and her account of her love affairs, p. 49; and if we had discretionary editorship, and the volume had been written by one having always had her sight, we should unhesitatingly exclude such passages.  But, as the records of the impressions, consciousnesses and general mental phenomena of a blind girl in love, they stand to be, perhaps, quoted hereafter in some abstruse scientific treatise, or bloom out in some perennial poem.