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"Instruction Of Idiots"
In the facts and statistics presented in the report, light is shed upon some of the dark pages of God’s providence, and it is seen that the suffering and shame of idiocy are the result of sin, of the violation of the merciful laws of God, and the harmonies of his benign order. The penalties which are ordained for the violators of natural laws are inexorable and certain....
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Title: "Instruction Of Idiots"
Creator:  J.G.W. (author)
Date: 1849
Format: Article
Publication: Friends' Review
Source: Available at selected libraries
Keywords: Alcohol; Asylums; Benevolence; Blind; Children; Cognitive Disability; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Government; Heredity; Institutions; Legislation; Massachusetts; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; Policy; Public Welfare; Religion; Samuel Gridley Howe; Sexuality
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Science, Health & Technology