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![transformed into the likeness and manners of a man. It is difficult to avoid falling into the language of enthusiasm on beholding such an apparent miracle.” Seguin’s success is not instructive merely as a proof of the tioith of a metaphysical theor}% but also as proving the practical im- portance of mental science, as he based a successful system of education for a class of human beings, considered as incapable of any improvement fi’om education, on a true know- ledge of the structure of the mind. Gug- genbuhl had been following out a somewhat similar })lan on the Abendburg for the educa- tion of the Swiss Cretins. Two men, one in the most frivolous city of the world, the other on a solitary mountain-top, are thus devoting their lives to the education of the most re])ul- sive, the most helpless, and the lowest form of human nature. And this is not the humanity which merely visits distress, but that which lives amongst it, and for its amelioration. Many are equal to that exhibition of humanity wliich works hard for others whilst it lives apart in quiet, in comfort, and often in luxuiy; but how few to a devotion which is as far above that of many pubhc men, whose deeds](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2172975x_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
