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THE CENTURY MAGAZINE
would be no wiser for my account than a blind man to whom you describe a face in detail.
From a photograph by Whitman
Hellen Keller Exercising the Sense of Touch
Remember that when a blind man recovers his sight, he does not recognize the commonest thing that has been familiar to his touch, the dearest face intimate to his fingers, and it does not help him at all that things and people have been described to him again and again. So you, who are untrained of touch, do not recognize a hand by the grasp; and so, too, any description I might give would fail to make
