Translations:Victor of Aveyron/37/en

This then appears to me to be the cause of his present state, from which it will be seen that I entertain considerable hopes for the success of my cares. Indeed, when we consider the little time he has been in society, the Savage of Aveyron is much less like a simple youth, than an infant of ten or twelve months old, and an infant who should have against him anti-social habits, an obstinate inattention, organs scarcely flexible, and a very blunted sensibility. In this last point of view, his situation became a case purely medical, and the treatment of it belonged to moral medicine — to that sublime art created by the Willis's and the Crichton's of England, and later introduced into France by the success and writings of Professor Pinel.