Works written during Blindnesi. 



Treatise on the Holy Spirit. 

 A Greek History. 



Life of Wallace. 

 Coafessio Amantis, &c. 



On Rhetoric, 8tc. 



Several TreatUes. 

 Treatises on Grammar. 



Historical and Poetical Dictionary. 

 Idea del tempio (lella pittura, 

 Pe Musica. 



Geom. Theorems ; on Fortifica- 



tions ; Theory of Planets, &e. 

 Spiritual Poetry, &c. 

 Commentary on Laws, 3vols. folio. 

 On the Art of prolonging Life. 

 History of Dauphiny, &c. 

 Treatise of Algebra. 



Poems, Sermons, &c. 



Fables, 6 vols. Svo. 



Inventions foe the Blind. 



On Bees and Ants ; on Education. 



Explanation of the No. 6G6. 



Miscellanies, in Prose and Veiso. 

 Elements of Algebra, anil various 



other scientific works. 

 Various Nonconformist works. 



Oratorios (Jephtha, Zimri,&c.) 

 Poems, Letters to Washington, Sic. 



Fourteen Communications to Man- 

 chester Society ; Thirty-six to 

 Nicholson's Journal. 



Paradise Lost. &c. 

 Universal Mentor, &c. 

 Inventions for the Blind. 



* Lomatso had studied literature and minting previous to becoming blind ; he wrote on Pa 

 Some authorities state that Salinas was blind from birth. t Count dc Pagan publish^ 



inting after he became blind, 

 ed his works after he became blind. 



would thus ensure the training of persons to continue and 

 perfect an art which has been kept in a state of infancy 

 from the want of such a provision. 



The addition of deafness to blindness seems almost to 

 shut out a human being from the external world. It is 

 difficult to conceive how the mind of a person who is deaf, 

 dumb, and blind can be occupied much more difficult to 

 decide how it can be improved and educated. The case of 

 James Mitchell has been made known to the public by 

 Dugald Stewart, Mr. Wardrop, and Dr. Spurzheim. He 

 received no education, except that which was forced upon 

 him; his friends made no progress in communicating with 

 him, except such as related to his daily exercises and wants. 

 The intercourse they mutually held was by natural signs, 

 addressed to his sense of feeling. When hungry he ex- 

 pressed himself by carrying his hand towards his mouth, 

 and pointed to the cupboard where the eatables were kept. 

 If his sister wished to express satisfaction, she tapped him 

 gently; if displeasure, she gave him a quick slap. If he 

 wanted to go to bed he inclined his head sidewards. He 

 readily interpreted signs, and so evinced the activity of 

 his powers. Several cases of similar deprivations are 

 recorded ; perhaps the most interesting, and the one 

 least known in England, is that of Julia Brace, the deaf, 

 dumb, and blind American girl, who resides in the in- 

 stitution for the deaf and dumb at Hartford, Connecticut. 

 Julia Brace was seized with typhus fever at four years of 

 age : during the first week of her illness she became blind 

 and deaf. She retained her speech for about a year, fre- 

 quently repeating her letters and spelling the names of her 

 acquaintance, but she gradually lost it, and seems now con- 

 demned to perpetual silence. For three years she con- 

 tinued to utter a few words : one of the last was ' mother.' 



At first she was unconscious of her misfortune, and ima- 

 gined that a long night had come upon the world. At 

 length in passing a window she felt the sun shining warm 

 upon her hand, and she made signs indicating that she was 

 aware of it. She was governed by her mother, by means 

 similar to those employed in the case of Mitchell ; at first 

 she was exceedingly irritable ; but she at length became 

 habitually mild, obedient, and affectionate. At nine years of 

 age she was taught to sew, and since that time to knit. 

 Julia Brace, who is now nearly thirty years of age, is sup- 

 ported in the Hartford Asylum in part by the contributions 

 of visitors, and in part by her own labours in sewing and 

 knitting. A language of palpable signs was early esta- 

 blished as a means of communication with her friends ; this 

 has been much improved by her intercourse with the deaf 

 and dumb, and is now sufficient for all ordinary purposes. 

 It is obvious that her only means of perceiving external ob- 

 jects are the smell, the taste, and the touch. The touch is 

 her chief reliance, and enables her to distinguish every 

 object with which she has been familiar, sometimes by the 

 aid of her lips and tongue. But her smell also is surpris- 

 ingly acute, and often enables her to ascertain facts which 

 are beyond the reach of other persons. Her countenance as 

 she sits at work exhibits the strongest evidence of an active 

 mind and a feeling heart, and thoughts and feelings seem 

 to Hit across it, like the clouds in a summer sky. A shade 

 of pensiveness will be followed by a cloud of anxiety or 

 gloom ; a peaceful look will perhaps succeed ; and not un- 

 frequently a smile lights up her countenance, which seems 

 to make one forget her misfortunes. But no one yet has 

 penetrated the darkness of her prison-house, or been able 

 to find an avenue for intellectual or moral light. 

 These particulars are derived from two interesting articles 



