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The Art of Seeing

by Aldous Huxley · 1942

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Both a document & a handbook The Art of Seeingrecords Aldous Huxley's victory over near-blindness & details the simple exercises anyone can follow to improve eyesight. Using the method devised by Dr. W.H. Bates, "the pioneer of visual education," as Huxley called him, & heeding the advice of Bates' disciple, Margaret D. Corbett, Huxley claims to have conquered a vision problem that had plagued him for more than a quarter century.

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adult
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short · 168 pages

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