Contribution to social pathology. Sections I. & II. The blind and the deaf and dumb / by John Bird.

  • Bird, John.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Contribution to social pathology. Sections I. & II. The blind and the deaf and dumb / by John Bird. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    fortunately, happen to be educated only in some other branches of science, and not at all, per- haps, in this one, in which they unhesitatingly rush in and dogmatise—this is a far greater evil. In the autumn of 1847, just after my return from my voyage to Bombay, avoiding all other intro- ductions, fearing lest the aforesaid certificate of monomania should accompany them, I called on the Rev. Dr. Hoppus, the Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University College, and stated to him the condition of my circumstances, the adversity of my family, my own blindness, and consequent loss of the means and opportunities of supporting myself. With these introductions, I asked for a gratuitous admission to his course of lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. I have often paid for lectures, and have been correspondingly welcomed and remem- bered, but never in a more manly, kind, and Christian spirit than by Dr. Hoppus, then and in all the other many communications I have had with him since. Constant attendance on these lectures not only supplied me with the means and opportunities of tranquillising my mind, but of gaining that insight into my own condition which enabled me to reflect and to reason out those principles on which I have based my views for ameliorating the condition
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