| Medicine - 1872 - 890 pages
...Hereditary Genius," states that 30 per cent, ol idiots and imbeciles put under suitable instruction have been taught to conform to social and moral law,...of good feeling, and of working like the third of an average man; while more than 40 per cent, have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life... | |
| Edward Seguin - 1866 - 484 pages
...idiots have been improved, educated, and even cured ; not one id a thousand has been entirely retractory to treatment ; not one in a hundred who has not been made more happy and healthy ; more than thirty per cent. have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order,... | |
| Sir Francis Galton - 1869 - 490 pages
...matters, states that more than thirty per cent, of idiots and imbeciles, put under suitable instruction, have been taught to conform to social and moral law,...of good feeling, and of working like the third of an average man. He says that more than forty per cent, have become capable of the ordinary transactions... | |
| Francis Galton - Electronic books - 1869 - 474 pages
...matters, states that more than thirty per cent. of idiots and imbeciles, put under suitable instruction, have been taught to conform to social and moral law,...of good feeling, and of working like the third of an average man. He says that more than forty per cent. have become capable of the ordinary transactions... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1870 - 966 pages
...idiots and feeble-minded persons, and who is considered the highest authority on this subject, says: "Not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory...to treatment; not one in a hundred who has not been more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral laws,... | |
| Medicine - 1882 - 776 pages
...right to speak of the faculties of the idiot being doomed to remain stationary. Dr. Seguin says that not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory...treatment; not one in a hundred who has not been made happy and healthy ; more than thirty per cent, have been taught to conform to social and moral law,... | |
| Science - 1881 - 898 pages
...of scientific knowledge and skillful, persevering art is thus stated by Professor Seguin himself: " Not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory...has not been made more happy and healthy ; more than thirty per cent, have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order,... | |
| Homeopathy - 1882 - 558 pages
...authority, although somewhat oversanguine, said regarding the results of attempting to train idiots : Not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory...treatment ; not one in a hundred who has not been made happy and healthy ; more than thirty per cent, have been taught to conform to social and moral law,... | |
| 1883 - 498 pages
...families of one or both parents. Dr. Seguin says that not one in a thousand has been entirely refractorv to treatment; not one in a hundred who has not been made happv and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and... | |
| 1884 - 650 pages
...training of idiots and imbeciles. He says, " idiots have been improved, educated, and even cured ; not one in a thousand has been entirely refractory...has not been made more happy and healthy ; more than thirty per cent. have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order,... | |
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