EDUCATING THE BLIND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 15, 8 May 1914, Page 4

EDUCATING THE BLIND.

The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald states that ho has received a circular letter from “C. Arthur Pearson,” asking support in that gentleman’s campaign ior cheapening and amplifying the supply of Braille literature for the blind. Everyone has heard of Mr Pearson, states the correspondent, as the phenomenally active energy behind the groat publishing business of the house of that name. Most people know of him as having built up an amazing enterprise. Well, Mr Pearson, still a comparatively young man, a man, at any rate, in the prime of life, has himself become afflicted with almost total blindness. Few circumstances more tragic in their operation can be imagined than this of a man so brimful of energy stilled and set aside by the loss of sight. But ho is not wholly set aside. On the contrary, his ability, and capacity for work and powers of organisation are now centred iipon the affliction of those who suffer like himself. Most of Mr Pearson’s energies nowadays are employed in the service of the blind, and chiefly, as befits his calling in life, with provision for them of the solace of literature. He is devoted in the upkeep and extension of the National Institute of the Blind, the specific objects of which are to print and distribute books and music in Braille, and to promote the higher education, employment and well-being of the blind, and to that end he had started his campaign.