Translations:Victor of Aveyron/50/en

Thus, in selecting some such cases as this, in which the defect of attention, for the mind, might appear like a want of sensibility in the particular organ, it was found, contrary to first appearances, that this nervous power was remarkably feeble in almost all the senses. Of course, it made part of my plan to develop sensibility by every possible means and to lead the mind to a habit of attention, by exposing the senses to the reception of the most lively impressions.