Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bisharin" to "Bohea"

part in the active duties of everyday life. Again, in a class of seeing

children the blind member is treated as an exception. The memory is cultivated at the expense of the other faculties, and the facility with which it recites in certain subjects causes it to make a false estimate of its attainments. The fundamental principles in different branches are imperfectly understood, from...