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Samuel Gridley Howe was born in Boston on November 10, 1801. His father Joseph Neals Howe was a ship-owner and cordage manufacturer. His mother Patty (Gridley) Howe was considered to be one of the most beautiful women of her day.
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Excerpt from A Letter to Mrs. and Other Loyal Women, Touching the Matter of Contributions for the Army, and Other Matters Connected With the War They are to be reconciled by considering that health is a comparative term. Compared with Euro pean armies in the field, ours is healthy; compared with the rebel army it is probably very healthy but compared with a half million of men at home, it is fearfully unhealthy. Having seen something abroad of the usual fright ful mortality among soldiers in actual war, and read more; and having seen too the manner in which our volunteers were hurried into the field, I believe that the mortality among them would have been vastly greater but for the existence of the Sanitary Commission. I believe this after giving due weight to the fact that certain officers sneer at the Commission; and to the really important fact that the season has been uncommonly favorable. The United States Sanitary Commission, projected and animated by its able and energetic president; organized and directed by its wise and humane secretary, has indeed done a great work in the way of preventing disease; the credit of which is due almost entirely to those officers, and to the zealous inspectors and assistants whom they have employed. But let us look a little more closely at this matter of army sickness and mortality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The reports and notes herewith given to the public contain the record of a wonderful labor, and an equally wonderful result. In the whole catalogue of human miseries, a greater can scarcely be imagined than the twofold privation, on the very threshold of existence, of the leading senses of sight and hearing. What parent, seeing an infant child so disabled, would not be apt to consider death a happy exchange for a life to be passed in darkness, ignorance and isolation? Such a fate was set before the little Laura Bridgman, who nevertheless lived not only to enjoy the greatest benefits of civilized society, but also, by her extraordinary experience, to elucidate the mysterious relations of the human faculties, and to illustrate, in her outer darkness, the nature of the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. When Dr. Howe first became aware of Laura sexistence, the double calamity of blindness and deafness had rarely been observed, and never relieved to any appreciable extent. The way by which knowledge from without should make entrance into her mind was as yet unexplored, and every step in it was purely tentative. The man whose genius led him to confront this difficult problem was of the order of those who so corre See page 348. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Excerpt from Address of the Trustees of the New-England Institution for the Education of the Blind to the Public They are apt also to be exceedingly awkward and embarrassed in company, and are often very bashful while very vain all this can be corrected by pursuing the same means as used with seeing children, and by accustoming them to society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Samuel Gridley Howe was born in Boston on November 10, 1801. His father Joseph Neals Howe was a ship-owner and cordage manufacturer. His mother Patty (Gridley) Howe was considered to be one of the most beautiful women of her day.
After studying at Brown, he received his medical degree from Harvard in 1824.
He then set out for Greece to participate in the War for Independence against the Turks. He gave valorous service there, both as a soldier and surgeon, and stayed for 6 years, distributing American relief shipments and assisting Greek efforts to repair and improve the nation. On a brief trip back to America, Howe published Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution (1828). When he returned home again in 1831, he was hired by the state of Massachusetts to start a school for the blind. By 1832 he had opened a school in his home with six pupils. He got financial help from private philanthropists as well as from states surrounding Massachusetts. By April 1833 Howe had established in Boston the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind. He taught that the blind should be treated with confidence rather than pity. He developed new and simpler devices for instructing blind children and innovated in finding inexpensive ways to print in raised letters. Howe himself authored textbooks on grammar, spelling, and geography. His annual reports on the work of the institution influenced other states to follow his example. His success with Laura Bridgeman, who was both blind and deaf, helped prove that persons with such challenges were not mentally inferior. Howe joined many other reform movements. He advocated better public schools, better treatment of the insane, and reforms in the prisons. He was chairman of a group of Bostonians who opposed the Fugitive Slave Law by arming themselves to protect African American fugitives. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress as an antislavery candidate and was among those zealous New Englanders who worked to keep Kansas from permitting slavery and supported John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. During the Civil War and Reconstruction he served on national commissions and various agencies concerned with the conduct of the war and aid to freed slaves. Howe died on January 9, 1876.
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Quotations: "Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half. "
In 1843 Howe had married Julia Ward, who, during the Civil War, wrote the words for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic. "