. The deaf and dumb, or, A collection of articles relating to the condition of deaf mutes : their education, and the principal asylums devoted to their instruction . THE MANUAL ALPHABET. 67 Although the two-handed alphabet is much the bestknown in England, our information concerning theother is far more distinct. The latter certainly camefrom Spain, where also the art of instructing the deafand dumb seems to have originated. The subjectsare, indeed, so much connected, that it would be use-less to attempt to keep the consideration of themseparate. It is a vulgar mistake to assign a Frenchorigin
. The deaf and dumb, or, A collection of articles relating to the condition of deaf mutes : their education, and the principal asylums devoted to their instruction . THE MANUAL ALPHABET. 67 Although the two-handed alphabet is much the bestknown in England, our information concerning theother is far more distinct. The latter certainly camefrom Spain, where also the art of instructing the deafand dumb seems to have originated. The subjectsare, indeed, so much connected, that it would be use-less to attempt to keep the consideration of themseparate. It is a vulgar mistake to assign a Frenchorigin to those useful arts. The Abbe de lEpeecould well afford to spare the honor of the originaldiscovery, if the assertion of an eloquent writer be true,that He is not the first discoverer of any art whofirst says the thing ; but he who says it so long, andso loud, and so clearly that he compels mankind tohear him. Of the manual alphabets the Abbe cer-tainly was not the inventor; and the impression thathe was such, may perhaps have arisen from the cir-cumstance that his tomb-stone, in the cemetery ofPere la Chaise, at Paris, bears the figure of an openhand. If i
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