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New York Asylum For Idiots, Twelfth Annual Report
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| 49 | 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.
