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A BEACON FOR THE BLIND

                                        Photo. Emery Walker

PROFESSOR AND MRS. FAWCETT
From the painting by Ford Madox Brown, now in the National Portrait Gallery

A BEACON FOR THE BLIND
BEING A LIFE OF
HENRY FAWCETT
THE BLIND POSTMASTER-GENERAL
BY
WINIFRED HOLT
‘He that is greatest among you
let him be servant of all.’
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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1914
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO THE FIVE ON TWO CONTINENTS
WHO MADE ITS WRITING POSSIBLE——
IN ENGLAND, B. T. AND F. DE G. E.
IN AMERICA, E. H. B., H. H.
AND R. H.
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FOREWORD
 
BY
 
The Right Honourable Viscount Bryce
late British Ambassador to America

There has been no more striking example in ourtime of how self-reliance and strength of purposecan triumph over adverse fortune than that presentedby the career of Henry Fawcett. The storyof his life as it is to be told in this book will giveample illustrations of his fortitude and his perseverance.All that I, an old friend of his, needspeak of is a quality hardly less remarkable thanwas his energy. I mean his cheerfulness. Itwas specially wonderful and admirable in oneafflicted as he was. Nothing would seem so to cuta man off from his fellows as the loss of sight, norwould it appear possible to enjoy the charms ofexternal nature without seeing them. Fawcett,however, delighted in society. He never moped.He loved to be among his friends, and found aninexhaustible pleasure in talk wherever

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