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On The Religious State, And Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb
We regard congenital deafness as one of the sorest calamities that can befall a human being. The decree of Providence that closes, at birth, the ear of an individual to the admission of sound, shuts up his mind in a cell, where scarcely a ray of intellectual or moral light ever dawns upon his solitude....