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regard him pityingly, and his clients take their business elsewhere.
When the light went out of the eyes of this brilliant man, it did not
take his brain as well. He is fitted to be a consulting lawyer or court
pleader, and could occupy a chair in a college of law. Surely, there is
something radically wrong when these conditions exist! Surely the public
needs to open its eyes, and polish its glasses in order to see more
clearly that there is a mental blindness, more pitiful, more
far-reaching in its consequences, than physical blindness, however hard
or uncomfortable the latter condition may be. Some one facetiously
suggested that I call this lecture "bringing light to the seeing," and,
in a sense, this is what I am trying to do. But the light is carried by
a kindly hand, and the hand is the index to a heart in which there is no
bitterness, no malice, no distrust--a heart brimming over with love,
with hope, with confidence, and with a belief that the public _will_ see
the light, and, seeing it, and reading my message in its beams, will
pass it on to others, adding to it as it goes, until it floods every
corner of our vast state, and result in untold good for my people. And
let me tell you how this light may be disseminated--let me apportion
your share in this labor of love, this highest form of social service,
this movement of re-education now sweeping over the land.

I am so often asked by those who wish to volunteer in their country's
service, "What can I do to help in the re-education of the blinded
soldier?" And I invariably answer, "You can first help in the
re-education of the public, and this will be the greatest service you
can render to the men blinded in battle." In order to know what lines of
work will be available for them when they return, we must look about and
see what the adult blind of our civil communities are doing. If we can
not employ all these who are willing and able to work, how can we hope
to employ an increased number later on? Let us ask ourselves what the
blind can do, and then, how much of this are we permitting them to do?
If we are an employer of salesmen, and one of our employees has recently
lost his eyesight, let us ask ourselves why, when he came to us and
urged us to let him continue to sell our goods, we told him that,
although he had been a faithful worker, and we were exceedingly sorry
for his misfortune, we could not retain his services, because
competition was so great, and so