The Blindman's World: A Short Story, Fiction and Literature Classic By Edward Bellamy! AAA+++

“The Blindman’s World,” Edward Bellamy, 1886 — A civilization on Mars has the gift of foresight. This changes their perception of death, mourning, love, memory, and human literature, which is saddening, as it is written “in the past tense.” They pity humans, viewing them as disabled; particularly regrettable is their inability to see the date and manner of their deaths, which would release them from a thousand uncertainties. To them, humans are a “spectacle of a race doomed to walk backward, beholding only what has gone by, assured only of what is past and dead.”