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Excerpt from: The Conservation Of Eyesight Our worst foes are ignorance, poverty, and the unconscious cruelty of our commercial society. These are the causes of blindness; these are the enemies which destroy the sight of children and workmen and undermine the health of mankind. So long as these enemies remain unvanquished, so long will there be blind and crippled men and women.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Conservation Of Eyesight | |
| From: | Out Of The Dark | |
| Creator: | Helen Keller (author) | |
| Date: | 1920 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Page & Company, New York | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.185-187 | |
| Keywords: | Accident; Advocacy; Blind; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Disease; Helen Keller; Labor; Massachusetts; Medicine; Prevention; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Venereal Disease; Work | |
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| Note: | Address at a meeting of The Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind, Boston, February 14, 1911. |
