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On The Natural Language of Signs; And Its Value And Uses In The Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, Part 2
Its necessity and value will be fully manifest, if we consider what an important part of the moral and religious training of children and youth consists in leading them to bring their passions, emotions, and sentiments under the sway of conscience, enlightened by the Word of God. In one word, the heart is the principal thing which we must aim to reach in the education of the deaf-mute, as well as of other children; and the heart claims, as its peculiar and appropriate language that of the eye and countenance, of the attitudes, movements, and gestures of the body....