Whats the first quote in the book flowers for algernon?

i need to know the first quote in the book flowers for algernon does anyone f theres a website where i can get the book online? or if you have the book can you please tell me !!

Whats the first quote in the book flowers for algernon?
"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by the excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns form above out of the light into the den"


-Plate, The Republic





I hope this is what you mean, it's the long quote at the beginning of the book.
Reply:Here's the first page of the book


http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/05532745...