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of the virus upon any of the organs effen- 
tial to oral intercourfe, there is certainly 
not the flightelt appearance, The hearing 
of the child does not feem to be affected. 
She is evidently confcious to the general 
impreflions cf found; and fhe even ap- 
pears to be interefied by particular tunes, 
and fome of the movements of inftru- 
mental mufic. That the vocal organs * 
are fufficiently perfeé, is equally obvious, 
from the vociferations and noifes of all 
kinds which fhe fo frequently utters. The 
enunciative organs F alfo appeared, upon 
* It is only, perbaps, when fhe is thus 
amufing herfelf, that the unfortunate Au- 
gufta appears at all interefting. The defor- 
mity of feature produced by the origiaal dif- 
eafe is, probably, in miore refpects than one, 
an aggravation of the calamities of this un- 
happy child. Imagination has fomething to 
do even with the beft feelings of our nature ; 
its affociations mingle with the active opera- 
tions of cur moft imperious duties ; and few, 
indeed, are the human beings whofe fympa- 
thies are fo abftractedly correct, as to require 
no affiftance from its alliance. Such affiftance, 
the perfon of this poor child is little calculat. 
ed to afford; and the vehemence of her ac- 
tions and gefiures is not likely to counteract 
the impreiiion which her appearance inevi- 
tably produces. But when tired of jumping 
and tedring about, fhe fits herfelf down to 
murmur her inarticulate fong, the mournful 
monotony of her action, and the exprefiion of 
her voice (which, though not harmonious, 
is moft appropriately melancholy) finds its 
way, irrefiftibly, to the heart. 
The contra-diftinction here fpecified, 
has not hitherto been marked, I believe, ei- 
ther by phyfiologifts, or by writers on elocu- 
tion. It is a diftinction, however, not lefs 
important than real ; without the due com- 
prehenfion of which, it is eaually impoffible 
either to elucidate, with perfpicuity, the 
theory of oral intercourfe, or to carry to any 
confiderable extent a rational fy{tem of elo- 
Cutionary inftruction. 
The Vocat OxGaws are thofe portions of 
the organic [yftem employed in the produéiion and 
promulgation of voluntary founds. The attri- 
butes and objects of theie are, power, or force; 
©ompafs, or variety ; tone; modulation, or 
flexure ; melody, or tune; fwell and ca- 
dence, &c. 
~The Enunciative OrcGaws are thofe 
portions and members of the human mouth, by the 
‘motions, pofitions, and conta&? of which, fpecific 
character is imparted to vocal founds, fo as to ren- 
der them capable of being converted into commu- 
wtcable figns of definite ideas. Their attributes 
are, diftinctnefs, articulaticn, meafure, and 
quantity, accent (vuigaily fo called), em- 
phafis, &c. 
' Want of attention to this effential contra- 
diftinction was, perhaps, one of the moft un. 
fortunate miftakes of che philofophical phy. 
Cafe of a Child blind and Jpeechlefs, 
[July 1, 
infpection, to be complete in every portion 
of their ftruéture. ‘That they were fo, 
indeed, would have been fufficiently evi- 
dent, even if no fuch infpeétion had been 
made ; for, amidit the variety of unmean- 
ing noifes with which fhe occafionally. 
amufes herfelf, all the elements of enunci- 
ation may be diftinétly heard: nor is there 
an individual fimple found (whether la- 
bial, lingual, palatial, or guttural) out of 
which the combinations of verbal language 
fhould be formed, which fhe does not re- 
peatedly pronounce. 
Whether from this chaos of original 
elements, the creations of intelligible 
f{peech will ever arife, Lown I am exceed- 
ingly doubtful. It cannot be difguifed, 
that this is one of thofe cafes which would 
require much more attention than, from 
the nature of the circumftances, it is prac- 
ticable that it fhould receive. Cafes fo 
completely anomalous are only to be un- 
derficod by long and minute obfervation ; 
and remedies, if praéticable, are only to 
be expected from the perfevering affiduity 
of an intelligent fuperintendant, capable 
of fuggefting, and patient enough to con. 
duét, a long and confiftent feries of expe- 
riments ;—a fuperintendant who could de- 
{cend to all the minutiz of miniftration 
and attendance, and who had {fufficient 
authority over the. whole houfhold, to 
preciude all thwartings and interruptions 
of the neceffary plans, either trom the pre- 
judices ef ignorance, or the impatience 
of unfeafonable doubt. All that I could 
do, therefore, in the prefent inftance, was 
to give a few fimple rules for the future 
regulation of the child; the principal ob- 
ject of which was to divert, if poffible, 
to the fenfe of hearing-that internal atten- 
tion which, from the error of education, 
had hitherto been concentrated to the fenfe 
of touch alone :—regulations which, 1 was 
apprehenfive at the time, would never be 
attended to with fufficient perfeverance 
and precifion ; and which, during my fe- 
cond vifit, were violated before my face, 
by the negligence or the perverfenefs of a 
domeftic who, naturally enough, defpifed 
a reftriction, the tendency of which the 
could not comprehend.* As this was, in 
fician, Ivard, in his abortive attempt to com- 
municate the power of {peech to the favage 
of Aveyron. ; 
* J had the greater reafon to confide in the 
probability of fome effect from thefe regu-. 
-Jations, becaufe, to me at leaft, it was appa- 
rent, that my frequent repetitions of the 
Englifh falutation, ** How do you do?” (a 
falutation to which her ears had never been 
familiarized) had produced (during the twenty~ 
four hours that I @aid in the houfe on my firt 
reality, 
