 But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot : he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas.  Human Physiology - Page 317by Robley Dunglison - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1844 - 144 pages
...in Westminster Hall ; and for which he quotes Lord Coke, Fitzherbert and others : — "A man who is born deaf, dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law...those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas." Surely it cannot be denied that education has done something for mankind, since this doctrine was sent... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...William Blackstone in vol. ;,, book 1 and chap. 8 of his Commentaries, as follows : " A man who is born deaf, dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law...incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those sen«es which furnish the human mind with ideas.'* p. 82. This discovery is a great triumph for humanity,... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1847 - 572 pages
...glimmering of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state Oliver's memory is not tenacious. A great part of what has been taught him he forgets in a month afterwards.... | |
 | Samuel Gridley Howe - Intellectual disability - 1848 - 152 pages
...so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters. But a man who is born deaf and dumb and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the...with an idiot; he being supposed incapable of any understand« An idiot, or natural fool, is one that hath had no understanding from his nativity, and,... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...of reason, so that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like common matters ; but a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot ; he is to be supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish the human... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...first time in the education of persons who by the English law are considered to be necessarily idiots as 'wanting all those senses which furnish the human mind with ideas,' has encouraged attempts to educate idiots.* The results thus far are most satisfactory. In view of... | |
 | Ira Mayhew - Education - 1850 - 476 pages
...glimmering of reason, BO that he can tell his parents, his age, or the like matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the samo state with an idiot, he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all the senses... | |
 | Ira Mayhew - Education - 1850 - 486 pages
...glimmering of reason, so that lie can tell his parents, his age, or the like matters. But a man who is born deaf, dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the samo state with an idiot, he being supposed incapable of any understanding, as wanting all the senses... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Psychology - 1851 - 430 pages
...they are educated into a high degree of intelligence. "A man," says Blackstone, "who is born deaf, and dumb, and blind, is looked upon by the law as in the...understanding, as wanting all those senses which furnish human beings with ideas." Rejecting the dogmas of metaphysicians, and disbelieving that Ideas are the... | |
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