Blindness and the blind

✍ Scribed by L. Webster Fox

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1889
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 879 KB
• Volume: 127
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(89)90349-9

✦ Synopsis

The character of a man may be read in his face."* I make an addendum and say, a man's character may be read in his eye. Physiognomy is understood by all to a greater or lesser degree. The physiognomy of the eyeis the more subtle science, hence requiring a more extended study.

The eye is an index to the workings of the brain: "It participates in all its emotions, expresses the most lively sensations, passions the most tumultous, feelings the most delightful and sensations the most delicate."~ One author calls it, "The tongue of the understanding."

We all feel that vision is the most valuable of the senses, for by it we enjoy the beauties of nature, it is also a source of our learning and a medium of communication. While