Translations:Victor of Aveyron/32/en

Afterward, reciting many histories collected at Bicêtre, of children incurably affected with idiotism, Citizen Pinel established the most striking resemblance between the situation of these unfortunate people, and that of the child which occupied our present attention; from which he drew, as a necessary consequence, that a perfect identity existed between these young idiots and the Savage of Aveyron. This identity led to the inevitable conclusion, that a person laboring under an affliction, hitherto considered incurable, was insusceptible to every species of sociability and instruction. Such was also the consequence deduced by Citizen Pinel, and which he nevertheless accompanied by that philosophical doubt, conspicuous in all his writings, and which shows, in his presages, that he knows how to appreciate the science of prognosis, and that lie regarded this case as affording only uncertain probabilities and conjectures.