…will cast a lot of light, I think, on the subject I propose to discuss. The first extract is from the autobiography of Helen Keller where she describes how she discovered language as a child. She writes, my teacher brought me my hat and I knew we were…

…who hear them that they are but the covers of ignorance and a hindrance to true knowledge. Well, these quotations from Helen Keller on the one hand and from these various authors on the other indicate very clearly the curiously ambivalent attitude towards…

…the bad fairy's gift I mean this is one of the strange ironies of our destiny that this wonderful thing we have which Helen Keller so eloquently describes as this giver of life and creator of thought. He is also one of the most dangerous and destructive…