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Excerpt from The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind The earliest outspoken proposal of founding a school for the blind in the United States was in 1826. In that year a young physician of Boston re turned from his medical studies in Paris resolved to make some provi sion for the blind at home corre sponding to that which he had seen and repeatedly examined abroad. -paris had for about forty years pos dr. John D. Fisher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.