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Hence you may form an idea of the proficiency which these unfortunates attain under the auspices of the benevolent M. HAUeY. In the compass of a letter, or even of several letters, it is impossible to develope proceedings which it is more easy to put into execution than to describe.
In proportion as the number of the pupils increased, so did the resources of their industrious activity. By a law which was solicited by M. HAUeY, and which excited and kept up a singular emulation among his pupils, the blind, in preference to the clear-sighted of equal merit, were admitted to the various secondary employments of the establishment.
From that period, the first blind pupils, formed by M. HAUeY, being promoted to the functions of teachers, transmitted with success to young blind children, sent for instruction, from different parts of the Republic, the first elements of education given them by himself and assistants.
No sooner had M. HAUeY rendered public his first essays, than the learned, and especially the members of the ci-devant Academy of Sciences, stamped them with their approbation, as appears by a Report signed by some of the most distinguished of that body, such as DESMARETS, LA ROCHEFOUCAULT, CONDORCET, &c.
M. HAUeY informs me that out of fifteen or twenty of his old pupils, whom he has connected by the ties of marriage, ten or twelve are fathers; and that they have children more fortunate than the authors of their days, since the enjoy the benefit of sight.
It may not be improper to observe, that M. HAUeY always first puts a frame into the hands of his pupils, and that he has made a law, to which he scrupulously adheres, not to lean too much towards the agreeable arts, unless the pupil manifest for them a peculiar disposition.
Tremolite or grammatite of HAUeY, in the same place. These two last-mentioned substances were in terminated crystals. Red oxyd of titanium, in the same place. Crystallized sulphate of strontia, in the mines of Villefort in La Lozere, in the environs of Paris, at Bartelemont, near the Salterns in the department of La Meurthe. Fibrous and crystallized sulphate of strontia, at Bouvron, near Toul.
In October, 1800, the Consuls decreed that the National Institution of the Industrious Blind should be united to the Hospital of the Quinze-vingts, together with the soldiers who had lost their sight in Egypt. M. HAUeY is shortly to be honoured by a pension, as a reward for the services which he has bestowed on those afflicted with blindness.
"After having paid to my country," rejoined M. HAUeY, "the merited homage of my invention, my anxiety to contribute to the relief of the afflicted, wherever they may be found, gives birth to the desire of propagating, as much as possible, an institution which enlightened men and philanthropists have been pleased to recommend to the attention of foreigners and to the esteem of my countrymen, as may be seen by consulting different literary publications from the year 1785 down to the present time, particularly the new French Encyclopaedia, at the article Aveugle."
Raised work, or relief, is the simple and general process by means of which M. HAUeY forms his pupils, and there are a great number of them whose abilities would excite the pride of many a clear-sighted person.
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