Annotated and Abridged Artifact


New York Asylum For Idiots, Twelfth Annual Report

Creator: n/a
Date: 1863
Publisher: Comstock & Cassidy, Albany
Source: Steve Taylor Collection

Abridged Text

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And when, as the practical resultant of all these, obedience and capability have taken the place of inertia and incapacity, [1 »] and correct habits have been substituted for the reverse by the years of pupilage, need we fear the recurrence of the latter except under such a gross after-mismanagement as we may demand of the friends or the public, that they shall be exempted from.

Annotations

1.     The report accepts Seguin’s defintion of idiocy as a defect of will.

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