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DescriptionThese poetic, inspiring essays offer remarkable insights into the world of a gifted woman who was deaf and blind. Helen Keller relates her impressions of the world's beauty and promise, perceived through the sensations of touch, smell, and vibration, together with the workings of a powerful imagination. Table of contentsThe World I Live In Preface I. The Seeing Hand II. The Hands of Others III. The Hand of the Race IV. The Power of Touch V. The Finer Vibrations VI. Smell, the Fallen Angel VII. Relative Values of the Senses VIII. The Five-Sensed World IX. Inward Visions X. Analogies in Sense Perception XI. Before the Soul Dawn XII. The Larger Sanctions XIII. The Dream World XIV. Dreams and Reality XV. A Waking Dream A Chant of Darkness Optimism Part I. Optimism Within Part II. Optimism Without Part III. The Practice of Optimism |