Translations:Victor of Aveyron/103/en

• It is in the power of enlightened observers to come and satisfy themselves with the accuracy of these results; they alone are capable of appreciating the proper value of these facts, by bringing with them, to the investigation, a judicious understanding, and versed in the science of the human mind. The exact moral state of our savage, is difficult to ascertain with precision; daily experience and all our received ideas are calculated to mislead our judgment about this subject. “ lj the habit in which we are,” says Condillac,