Translations:Victor of Aveyron/31/en

Proceeding to the state of the intellectual faculties of this child, the author of the report exhibited him to us as incapable of attention (unless as it respected the objects of his wants), and consequently of all the operations of the mind which depended upon it; destitute of memory, of judgment, even of a disposition to imitation; and so bounded were 1ns ideas, even those which related to his immediate wants, that lie could not open a door, nor get on a chair to obtain the food, which was put out of the reach of his hand ; in short, destitute of every means of communication, attaching neither expression nor intention to the gestures and motions of his body, passing with rapidity, and without any apparent motive, from a state of profound melancholy to bursts of the most immoderate laughter; insensible to every species of moral affection, his discernment was never excited but by the stimulus of gluttony; his pleasure, an agreeable sensation of the organs of taste; his intelligence, susceptibility to producing incoherent ideas, connected with his physical wants; in a word, his whole existence Mas a life purely animal.