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Y. Crowell and Company, New York, in 1903.  \nLibrary ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nKeller, Helen, 1880–1968.  \nThe world I live in and Optimism: a collection of essays / Helen Keller.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \n“This Dover edition, first published in 2009, contains the unabridged texts of The World I Live In, originally published by The Century Company, New York, in 1908, and Optimism, An Essay, originally published by T. Y. Crowell and Company, New York, in 1903.”  \n9780486140599  \n1. Senses and sensation. 2. Perception. 3. Keller, Helen, 1880–1968.  \n4. Optimism. I. Keller, Helen, 1880–1968. My key of life, optimism. II. Title. HV1624 .K4A3 2009  \n362.4’ 1092—dc22 [B] 2009024684  \nManufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation 47367801  \n[www.doverpublications.com](www.doverpublications.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nTitle Page  \nBibliographical Note  \nCopyright Page  \nPREFACE  \nI. The Seeing Hand  \nII. The Hands of Others  \nIII. The Hand of the Race  \nIV. The Power of Touch  \nV. The Finer Vibrations  \nVI. Smell, the Fallen Angel  \nVII. Relative Values of the Senses  \nVIII. The Five-Sensed World  \nIX. Inward Visions  \nX. Analogies in Sense Perception  \nXI. Before the Soul Dawn  \nXII. The Larger Sanctions  \nXIII. The Dream World  \nXIV. Dreams and Reality  \nXV. AWaking Dream  \nA Chant of Darkness  \nI  \nII  \nIII  \nOPTIMISM  \nPart I. Optimism Within  \nPart II. Optimism Without  \nPart III. The Practice of Optimism  \nA CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST  \nPREFACE  \nThe essays and the poem in this book appeared originally in the “Century Magazine,” the essays under the titles “A Chat About the Hand,” “Sense and Sensibility,” and “My Dreams.” Mr. Gilder suggested the articles, and I thank him for his kind interest and encouragement. But he must also accept the responsibility which goes with my gratitude. For it is owing to his wish and that of other editors that I talk so much about myself.  \nEvery book is in a sense autobiographical. But while other self-recording creatures are permitted at least to seem to change the subject, apparently nobody cares what I think of the tariff, the conservation of our natural resources, or the conflicts which revolve about the name of Dreyfus. If I offer to reform the educational system of the world, my editorial friends say,“That is interesting. But will you please tell us what idea you had of goodness and beauty when you were six years old?” First they ask me to tell the life of the child who is mother to the woman. Then they make me my own daughter and ask for an account of grown-up sensations. Finally I am requested to write about my dreams, and thus I become an anachronical grandmother; for it is the special privilege of old age to relate dreams. The editors are so kind that they are no doubt right in thinking that nothing I have to say about the affairs of the universe would be interesting. But until they give me opportunity to write about matters that are not-me, the world must go on uninstructed and unreformed, and I can only do my best with the one small subject upon which I am allowed to discourse.  \nIn “The Chant of Darkness” I did not intend to set up as a poet. I thought I was writing prose, except for the magnificent passage from Job which I was paraphrasing. But this part seemed to my friends to separate itself from the exposition, and I made it into a kind of poem.  \nH. K.  \nWrentham, Massachusetts, July 1st, 1908.  \nI . The Seeing Hand  \nIHAVE just touched my dog. He was rolling on the grass, with pleasure in every muscle and limb. 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