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a link in the chain, it is gone. The rapidity of the action does not 

 destroy it. So with double vision. It is there ; and the rapidity of 

 putting the two things together does not destroy the duality. 



Mr. W. E. Partridge — In superimposing the image seen with a 

 telescope upon a number of lines seen by the naked eye, to ascertain 

 its magnifying power, there is distinct vision, and you are doing some- 

 thing with each eye at the same time. 



Dr. Yan der Weyde — It requires some training to do that. "When 

 we see the words " American Institute," we do not look at every letter. 

 If we did, and there was an error, we should always see it. The 

 proof-reader looks at every letter, but I do not read like a proof- 

 reader. 



The President — We do a great deal by association ; we look at a 

 word and see a certain part of it, and know what the word is. There 

 are two ways of learning a thing by heart. One is to learn the idea, 

 and the other by exercising the organ of locality, remembering the 

 first word on a page, for instance, and from that recalling the rest of 

 the .page. The best way is to learn by actual association with the idea 

 itself. 



Dr. J. Y. C. Smith cited the case of Laura Bridgeman, who was 

 deaf, dumb and blind, and yet had been tolerably well educated 

 through the ends of her fingers. When Charles Dickens was in South 

 Boston, visiting the institution, she was saying something to her 

 instructress, who, on being asked what it was, said she was asking if 

 horses loved butter. The case of Julia Brace, also deaf, dumb and 

 blind, educated at Hartford, was also a remarkable case of education 

 under great difficulty. Julia Brace could put a small cambric needle 

 on her tongue, and the end of a thread, and instantly thread the needle 

 with her tongue. 



Dr. J. J. Edwards — When we know how the blind fish see, we 

 shall learn something about it. We are only at the beginning. We 

 shall learn by and by that the blind do see, and the deaf do hear. 



Dr. J. W. Richards stated that the appreciation of Laura Bridge- 

 man of the conditions of society, was illustrated by the fact that 

 during the Irish famine she went to work and earned money and 

 bought a barrel of flour and sent it to the Irish. 



The President — It is worthy of notice that everything that? can 

 enter the mind can be described by a dot and a line — by the Morse 

 telegraph. 



Dr. J. Y. C. Smith — All this time we have been talking about the 

 organs, and have not talked about the mind. There is a presiding 



