A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech.
- John Thelwall
- Date:
- 1810
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to Henry Cline, on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic, and on the treatment of impediments of speech. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ Upon the subject of intellectual capability, E think Y might almost venture to speak with the same decision ;—since, neither in the form of the head, the shape of the features, nor in the expres- sion of the physiognomy, do I discover any of those | indications or appearances, that almost universall y accompany physical ideotism, or constitutional im- becility of mind. [You will please to notice, Madam,—that I use the terms physical and con- titutional, in contradisiinction to any deficiency or non-developement of the faculties of the mind, that may have arisen from moral or educational causes, or the want of that mental treatment which the peculiarities of the case might require. ] There is, indeed, in the eyes, a peculiar expres- sion—which, to the casual observer, might suggest a suspicion of something verging towards ideotism ; but from which (upon due consideration) I am disposed to draw a directly opposite inference. [ cannot see, in that peculiarity of ex pression, any thing that is ideotic. It certainly is not the glare of vacancy. On the contrary, it appears to me, to be rather the look of tense exertion and observance; —an effort to cbiain, thro the medium of sight, some portion of that information, as to what is pass-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33089449_0164.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
