HAND AND FINGER MEMORY 

 He knows his liousehold pets — especially his dog. Now, from his opportunity at the Museum, his 

 mental vision is reaching out to include the wilderness animals. A blind child's hand becomes acutely 

 sensitive to line and surface. It soon learns to recognize innumerable fine distinctions and slight modi- 

 fications whieli carry to his mind a quick identification of objects. He reaches out his hand from his 

 darkness and it is as if the light shone; he reaches it out from his isolation and he is not alone. Helen 

 KclliT, speaking of the value of the sense of touch for tlie blind, says in connection with her dog: "He 

 loved it [her hand] with his tail, with his paw. with liis tongue. If he could speak, I believe he would 

 say with me that Paradise is attained by touch; for in touch is all love and intelligence." There is good 

 evidence for the a.ssertion that in the education of children who see we attach too little iiiiportiince to the 

 value of the sense of toudi 



