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Excerpt from: Life Of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Before the millennium arrives will one language prevail and swallow up the rest, or will mankind agree to form a universal language? Would not such a project be pregnant with incalculable advantages? How shall it be accomplished? What shall this universal language be? Is there already one, provided by Nature herself, easy of acquisition, universal in its application, and which demands neither types nor paper?... | ![]() Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Life Of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet | |
| Creator: | Edward Miner Gallaudet (author) | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Format: | Book | |
| Publisher: | Henry Holt and Company, New York | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | ch.3-6, pp.45-195 | |
| Keywords: | Abbe Sicard; Advocacy; Alice Cogswell; American School For The Deaf; Asylums; Benevolence; Biography; Catholic; Clergy; Communication; Connecticut; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; Educational Institutions; Edward M. Gallaudet; England; Family; France; Hartford, CT; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Julia Brace; Laura Bridgman; Laurent Clerc; Marriage; Mason Cogswell; MASS MEDIA, CULTURE & THE ARTS; Philanthropy; Religion; Schools; Sensory Disability; Sign Language; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Social Welfare & Communities; Sophia Fowler; Thomas Gallaudet; Travel |
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