Translations:Victor of Aveyron/28/en

It may be easily imagined that a being: of this nature would excite only a momentary curiosity. People came together in crowds; they saw him, without properly observing him; they passed their judgment on him, without knowing him; and spoke no more on the subject. In the midst of this general indifference, the administrators of the National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, and its celebrated director, did not forget, that society, in drawing to herself this unfortunate youth, had contracted towards him indispensable obligations which she was bound to fulfill. Entering, then, into the hopes which I had conceived from a course of medical treatment, they determined that lie should be entrusted to my care.