To Keller the politics had a lot to do with blindness: > I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who

To Keller the politics had a lot to do with blindness: > I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in blindness. If we're only telling her story as an allegory and divorce her from her personal viewpoints, we might as well tell fables.