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to it by association and memory。 The experience of the deaf…blind
person; in a world of seeing; hearing people; is like that of a sailor
on an island where the inhabitants speak a language unknown to him;
whose life is unlike that he has lived。 He is one; they are many; there
is no chance of promise。 He must learn to see with their eyes; to
hear with their ears; to think their thoughts; to follow their ideals。
If the dark; silent world which surrounds him were essentially different
from the sunlit; resonant world; it would be inprehensible to his
kind; and could never be discussed。 If his feelings and sensations were
fundamentally different from those of others; they would be
inconceivable except to those who had similar sensations and feelings。
If the mental consciousness of the deaf…blind person were absolutely
dissimilar to that of his fellows; he would have no means of imagining
what they think。 Since the mind of the sightless is essentially the same
as that of the seeing in that it admits of no lack; it must supply some
sort of equivalent for missing physical sensations。 It must perceive a
likeness between things outward and things inward; a correspondence
between the seen and the unseen。 I make use of such a correspondence in
many relations; and no matter how far I pursue it to things I cannot
see; it does not break under the test。
As a working hypothesis; correspondence is adequate to all life; through
the whole range of phenomena。 The flash of thought and its swiftness
explain the lightning flash and the sweep of a et through the
heavens。 My mental sky opens to me the vast celestial spaces; and I