. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . s, the news was not less wonderfully proclaimed, theDeaf hear and the Dumb speak. Confidence, says Locke, will carry us through many adifficulty; and when that persuasion is supported by powerof mind and fed with noble impulse, be the task ever soarduous, it eventually must yield. It was no doubt underthe incentive of similar reflections heightened by burning THE DEAF AND DUMB. charity that the great De LEpee, rising equal to hissublime mission, built himself an everlasting name whenhe severed, as with Orlandos sword, the thousand ties
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . s, the news was not less wonderfully proclaimed, theDeaf hear and the Dumb speak. Confidence, says Locke, will carry us through many adifficulty; and when that persuasion is supported by powerof mind and fed with noble impulse, be the task ever soarduous, it eventually must yield. It was no doubt underthe incentive of similar reflections heightened by burning THE DEAF AND DUMB. charity that the great De LEpee, rising equal to hissublime mission, built himself an everlasting name whenhe severed, as with Orlandos sword, the thousand ties ofpast impossibilities from the car of future triumph. Skilland benevolence made one, brought forth the regenerativeprinciple that obtains to-day throughout the civilized world,and has set 600,000 or more interesting fellow-beings hail! 1760 sees the great Abbe at work. 1815 sends Dr. T. H. Gallaudet across the water in quest ofthe processes used in the of teaching the deaf. Englandis cold. France opens wide her arms. He returns with Clerc. LAURENT CLERC. and in 1816, founds, at Hartford, the first school of the]kindin America. Quebec, Canadas eldest daughter, soon follows,opep-ing an establishment in 1831. Forced to suspend afterfive years, her children are excluded from the benefits ofinstruction until 1847 when the Mile-End Institution, now soprosperous, is started. Nova Scotia, whose school began inAugust 1856, comes next for the honor of a step in the laud- ONTARIO INSTITUTION FOR able direction. And here we may well ask why the sum of$80,000 voted some years before by the old Canadian Parlia-ment towards the erection of an asylum for the deaf anddumb and the blind in Upper Canada, was never expended ?The only apparent reason may be sought in the complica-tions and political changes of those times and the engrossingof the public mind therewith. It was not long, however,
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