The mind unveiled, or, A brief history of twenty-two imbecile children [of the Pennsylvania Training School] / [Isaac Newton Kerlin].

  • Kerlin, Isaac N. (Isaac Newton), 1834-1893.
Date:
1858
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Credit: The mind unveiled, or, A brief history of twenty-two imbecile children [of the Pennsylvania Training School] / [Isaac Newton Kerlin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. §ligl]teb bs gimse. GEOHGISo A poor orphan boy, of whose birth and history nothing is now known, Georgie’s dem-ands on our sympathies are great; to be an orphan, is sorrowful —to be an abandoned orphan, is more so—but to he parentless, friendless, and a helpless idiot, is the depth of human sorrow. Poor Georgie had never known a mother’s caress : his irritable spirit had never been soothed by a gentle hand; a little outcast, no one cared to be taxed with his wants, which, though childish, were unreasonable, when exacted from any one hut a sacrificing mother. It is no wonder then, that with no warming sunshine of affection, to brighten his early days, he became cold and suspicious to- wards all advances—that his temper became soured 3*
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