Light for the blind : a history of the origin and success of Moon's system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind / by William Moon, LL.D., F.R.G.S.

  • William Moon
Date:
1877
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Credit: Light for the blind : a history of the origin and success of Moon's system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind / by William Moon, LL.D., F.R.G.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Extracted from the Observer, May 16, 1873.] THE RT. HON. LORD HATHERLEY (Late Lord Chancellor) ON TEACHING THE BLIND TO READ IN MOON'S EMBOSSED TYPE. “ On Monday, Lord Hatherley presided at the annual meeting- of the London Society formed in 1855 for supplying- Home-Teachers and Free Lending- Libraries for the indigent Blind in Moon’s embossed and sim- plified type. In moving the adoption of the report, his Lordship remarked, that he had himself experienced the benefit of Dr. Moon’s system of teaching; for when nearly wholly deprived of sight, he learnt the ‘ finger alphabet’ in three hours, and was now never at a loss to read the type used by the Blind. He was thus able to confirm, from personal experience, the statement that Dr. Moon’s was one of the simplest methods of teaching the Blind yet devised. “ There was, he thought, a good deal of advantage in reading the Scriptures slowly, as was necessarily the case when the touch was the only sense employed; for he had found that, in passages which he thought he under- stood very well, and knew much better, he had come across words and phrases which had quite a new or an additional significance to him. “ He congratulated Dr. Moon on having prepared his raised type in no less than 80 different lang-uages; and thus having contributed, not only to the comfort, but to the spiritual enjoyment of thousands of his poor and afflicted fellow-creatures.”
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