Excerpt from American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, 1855, Vol. 7 Opinion among the more experienced American teachers is, that these signs are useful, at least to some extent, and in the earlier lessons. But when Mr. Jacobs goes to the extent of denying that deaf mutes can attach their ideas to words not representing sensible Objects, except by the intermediation of signs; then, so far as I have Observed, he stands, at this stage of the world's progress, nearly or quite alone, and I think I can show, is palpably contradicted by facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.