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Sight to the Blind, by Lucy Furman
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Title: Sight to the Blind
Author: Lucy Furman
Release Date: April 11, 2004 [EBook #11998]
Language: English
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SIGHT TO THE BLIND
A STORY
BY
LUCY FURMAN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
IDA TARBELL
1914
TO HARRIET BUTLER
Contents
INTRODUCTION BY IDA M. TARBELL SIGHT TO THE BLIND AFTERWORD
The illustrations reproduced in the Introduction to this volume have been selected from those in Miss Furman's "Mothering on Perilous."
Introduction Ida M. Tarbell
Introduction
A more illuminating interpretation of the settlement idea than Miss Furman's stories "Sight to the Blind" and "Mothering on Perilous" does not exist. Spreading what one has learned of cheerful, courageous, lawful living among those that need it has always been recognized as part of a man's work in the world. It is an obligation which has generally been discharged with more zeal than humanity. To convert at the point of a sword is hateful business. To convert by promises of rewards, present or future, is hardly less hateful. And yet much of the altruistic work of the world has been done by one or a union of these