Excerpt from The Mentor, Vol. 3: January, 1893 Instead of a detailed account of the three sessions we give a summary of the chief discussions of the congress. Approval of a petition soliciting from the government, for the educated blind, the free exercise of civil and politi cal rights. Approval of the draft of a law relating to the legal right of the blind to education. Hitherto the efforts made in this direction by delegates devoted to their cause have obtained, as their sole result, fruitless promises. In the budget of public instruction, which reserves nearly francs for the deaf-mutes, not a centime is appropriated for the blind. The thousands of francs which they obtain every year, and which, moreover, will probably diminish, are due to the benevolence of the minister. 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.