Translations:Victor of Aveyron/97/en

This favorable change permitted us to re-ass the course of our exercises, in which l made new modifications, that appeared to me still better calculated to his attention and to improve his judgment. I substituted, instead of the figures pasted on boards, and which were, as I already said, entire plans, representing geometrical figures, some designs which were merely outlines of these same plans» I contented myself also with marking: the colors by small patches of an irregular form, and by no means analogous in their conformation to the colored pieces of pasteboard. Then new difficulties were only an amusement for the child, a result which was quite sufficient to serve the purpose which I had in view, in adopting this system of gross comparisons. The moment was now arrived of substituting it for another, more instructive, and which would have presented insurmountable difficulties if they had not been previously done away by the success of the means which we have employed to surmount the former.