Excerpt from The Blind Sisters of Saint Paul Study the religious congregations of our time from a psychological and social point of view, since we can thus analyse and classify many needs of the present day, the spirit of self-sacrifice and those forms of physical or moral indigence differing so widely from those which a gift can relieve. But is not a still keener interest aroused when it is a ques tion of nuns whose blindness places them under such special conditions? In this community all the sisters are not blind or threatened with blindness; there are many nuns with perfect eyesight; still the name of Blind Sisters of St Paul was given to the Congregation to emphasize the fact that it was founded for the blind and is their true home] Be fore penetrating into the convent, or describing the origin, the charitable aims or the future of the Congregation, it seems indispensable - though we must not overlook the problem of the blind girl's vocation, or the type of abnegation which leads a woman with eyesight to live in the midst of the blind - to speak, even at great length, of blindness in woman. It is necessary to analyse the impres sions she receives from things and from'people, and to discuss what her place in a home can be. Can she be useful or active? Can she love and be loved? Finally, what is to be her physical or mental share of life? These questions, though preliminary, never. 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.