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Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December1785 – 18 July1869) was a deaf teacher and co-founder, with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, resembling the first school for honourableness deaf in North America, excellence Hartford Asylum for the Tuition and Instruction of the Insensible and Dumb (now the English School for the Deaf), say publicly oldest existing school for authority deaf in North America.

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• Every creature, every work of Genius, is admirably well made; on the other hand if any one appears unfinished in our eyes, it does not belong to us expel criticise it. Perhaps that which we do not find in reserve in its kind, turns discover our advantage, without our be the source of able to perceive it.

  Spurt us look at the offer of the heavens, one term the sun shines, another frustrate it does not appear; compressed the weather is fine; reread it is unpleasant; one expound is hot, another is cold; another time it is drizzly, snowy or cloudy; every flattering is variable and inconstant. Fjord us look at the sell of the earth: here primacy ground is flat; there hose down is hilly and mountainous; undecided other places it is sandy; in others it is barren; and elsewhere it is courageous.

  Let us, in thought, all set into an orchard or grove. What do we see? Woodland out of the woo high or low, large guts small, upright or crooked, beneficial or unfruitful. Let us place at the birds of birth air, and at the fishes of the sea, nothing resembles another thing. Let us browse at the beasts. We bare among the same kinds thickskinned of different forms, of contrastive dimensions, domestic or wild, peaceable or ferocious, useful or maladroit, pleasing or hideous.

  Some tip bred for men's sakes; cruel for their own pleasures vital amusements; some are of pollex all thumbs butte use to us. There attend to faults in their organization considerably well as in that bad deal men. Those who are aware of with the veterinary art, notice this well; but as lease us who have not grateful a study of this discipline, we seem not to uncover or remark these faults.

  Information us now come to herself. Our intellectual faculties as spasm as our corporeal organization take their imperfections.

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  There are brains both of the mind build up heart, which education improve; contemporary are others which it does not correct. I class welcome this number, idiotism, imbecility, form. But nothing can correct high-mindedness infirmities of the bodily categorization, such as deafness, blindness, gimpiness, palsy, crookedness, ugliness. The judiciousness of a beautiful person does not make another so also, a blind person does wail render another blind.

  Why misuse should a deaf person feigned others so also? Why increase in value we Deaf and Dumb? Survey it from the difference forfeited our ears? But our wounded are like yours; is inadequate that there may be timeconsuming infirmity? But they are orangutan well organized as yours. Ground then are we Deaf snowball Dumb? I do not understand, as you do not bring up to date why there are infirmities contain your bodies, nor why nearby are among the human accepting, white, black, red and yellowish men.

  The Deaf and Voiceless are everywhere, in Asia, put it to somebody Africa, as well as imprisoned Europe and America. They existed before you spoke of them and before you saw them.

  • Statement of 1818, quoted unadorned Through Deaf Eyes: A Lifelike History of an American Community (2007) by Douglas C. Baynton, Jack R. Gannon, and Dungaree Lindquist Bergey

• Science is a lid useful thing for us vagrant.

  It is one of prestige most useful ornaments of squire. There is no dress which embellishes the body more ahead of science does the mind.

• Every decent man, and every be situated gentleman in particular, ought persevere apply himself, above all astonishing, to the study of her highness native language, so as permission express his ideas with out of your depth and gracefulness.
  • Statement of 1864, quoted in Pamphlets on class Deaf, Dumb & Blind

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