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On The Natural Language of Signs; And Its Value And Uses In The Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, Part 1
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| 6 | The wind has been kindly tempered to the shorn lamb. The great principle of compensation has been effectually at work. Much substantial good has come out of apparent evil, and we feel almost constrained to conclude that one deaf-mute child in such a family -- taking into account the spring which is thus imparted to the inventive powers of their minds and the kindliest charities of their hearts, with the acquisition by all of a novel, highly poetical and singular descriptive language, [1 »] adapted as well to spiritual as to material objects, and bringing kindred souls into a much more close and conscious communion than that of speech can possibly do -- is to be regarded rather in the light of a blessing than of a misfortune. | |
Annotations
1. Gallaudet is referring to home signs, the idiosyncratic systems of signs that would develop within particular families.
