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There are two ways of Seeing. One with the Eyes and one with the Mind. Helen Kellar recently stated in a public address that there were many people more Blind than she. She was right. The Blind are those who WILL NOT see.

Keep your Eyes and Mind wide Open.

Joseph Pulitzer, the late Blind Editor of the New York World, made his newspaper great not until after he became Blind. Prescott wrote his greatest Histories with Sightless Eyes. P. S. Henson, the great Preacher, with but one Eye, has Seen more and learned more than most people would with a dozen Eyes. The Blind many times See most.

Keep your Eyes and Mind wide Open.

Use your Eyes. See Things. And after you See them, make Friends out of them. No two people See Things exactly the same. Watt saw latent Power in the Steam that came out of his mother’s Tea Kettle. Franklin saw another kind of usefulness snapping from the tail of his Kite. The followers of these men saw enough to adapt and force Civilization ahead by scores of years.

Keep your Eyes and Mind wide Open.

Many of the really Big Things in this world have not yet been Seen. You, at your humble task To-day, may See some of them, or shadows of them. And if you do, persist in Seeing. There is always this one great way to Learn and Grow — to resolve on Seeing everything that can be Seen. But your Eyes are only half. To See with your Mind is the other half.

Keep your Eyes and Mind wide Open.