July 10, "1885.] 



♦ KNOV/LEDGE • 



the 



lal 



is stamped on the ground, ; 

 impatient. 



As may easily be imagined, the gesture language has 

 no more inflections than the Chinese, and tlie same wign 

 stand* for walk, walher, walki,i.j. ,r.,ll,../, ,r.,ll.;sl. At,, 

 hence, theoretically, the various purls <.l' | i . rh iiim;, \v 

 supposed to be not easily di.sliii-uislmM-', 1 nt tins is 

 rarely the case, as words or signs arr uiHlrisiL^od by the 

 context. The deaf mute arranges his sentences some- 

 what after the manner of the Latins, always putting 



aelinu. 



n the 



I the 5 



•es delin 



others, i 









r iiluas to their 

 liuii V children 

 . - .vu-us, they 



who have not been liiujlu Ii.ik r 

 attribute to thiirjs iluyilu ii"t 

 characteristics nui.-t Ki.nhi-.uis i<> tlu ir prt viuus expe- 

 rience. They are at i lu u. \ i h-iiiakiu- stu_-u. For them 

 the stars are eaiulh-, in t'lu- shv, abd thu h.-rizonisa 

 dome which toiuhus tlu- .jr-uiud, .and thuy long to 

 reach it and climb into the sky. One big buy, who had 

 probably seen his mother making bread, told me that 

 before he learnt on the oral .system ho used to think 

 liis mother made his little brf.tliers and sisters ont 

 of flour; aii.l aiuitlier said he t Imuo-ht she bought 

 the bahy I'f-iii '■' --iu-p. Tluy tlnuk raia is cau.sed by 



oily 



1 idea 



^Mtll the u,ieielit>, ^^llo believed in 

 Jupiter J'luvius. Fnuu all this it iu;iv ea.sily be 

 imagined that the de:,l' and dunih pn^^^ss" lew, if any, 

 abstract idea.s. Thus their ideas of space and tune are 

 very crude. Their ideas of tim.- are marked by their 

 physical ex|K-rie.ices: v,,/./-/,,,/ is when they ea"t with 

 .Simeons, knives, and ferks : ni-ht is when it is dark ami 

 they gn to .-h-ep. The p.,<f, by a mode of thouuht similar 



"behind me," and y, ./,.,. l.v--i!:'f:- : •.!■■:■-/■ V.-t>r,l:.y 

 before I slejjt once! Ker . lu pus 



two fingers over his sluuiLi, r I; • ■ , ■ - . ' - r Mu.ple 

 abstract ideas from liisev. u , T , rv it ,■ u,-. :,i.,i r.,,uuiuiu- 



describes uith hnth a'n'u's as large a circle as he can in 

 the air; uhile f,,r ,„u„ ;, he lu.lds up his ten fingers over 

 and over irjuiu \siili a luek ef :istcini.sliment. To indicate 

 .h,i,nr. he puiuts tu himself, ilun to his lips (red), and 

 afteruanls i,. his iTeeks. ami turns his lowered head 

 frtun the person with whom he is eoiiVLrsing, making up 

 a pir-tori;il repriseiitation of the facial expression which 



The deaf and dumb in like manner soon get ideas of- 



].ro],i-iety. A boy visiting a deaf and dumb school 



gone, and the 



that' falls from the sky ; the" dumb child wets tlie lip.s ..f 

 hisforefingers, and makes a movement from above down- 

 wards with both hands. The Turk is the man that wears 

 ^i turban. 



Uneducated deaf-and-dumb oliildreu, being cut off 

 from participation in the more complex thoughts of 



I,, ;- e] — unknown to him.^ 



,/is o. :, . ; ! ,_ ! ssious to be too 



', , iK L...-. u.ai.cd iho goat from its 



I 111 he afterwards finds that other- 



'i their horns, then he specialises by^ 



I uiiributc, and signifies goat as the 



urd. After using the general .sign o£ 



tcatcr, he discovers that other liquids. 



