Excerpt from Proceedings of Meeting Held in the Senate Chamber, Madison, Wednesday, July 16th, 1884, to Consider the Subject of Deaf-Mute Instruction in Relation to the Work of the Public Schools Let me congratulate you, fellow-workers, on the noble part America has borne in this grand and praiseworthy result. The names of Gallaudet of Hartford, Howe of Boston, Gallaudet and Bell of Washington, are cherished deeply in the thought and in the speech of all who have a heart to appreciate their great philanthropy, and the younger men of this generation are almost working miracles in behalf of the scientific development of the senses, even when apparently without even germinal, life-accepting power. During the present sessions we shall expect to hear from Prof. Gillespie, of Nebraska, who, in' the institution for the deaf and dumb in that State, has made some experiments in aural instruction which have attracted the attention of the world. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell will, I have no doubt, from a bril liant mind and a successful experience, show us most conclu sively that speaking and non-speaking children should not be separated in their early and later instruction, while all will-bear grateful testimony to the self-denying services of the hundreds of teachers who are now, in all of our cities and States, laboring to develop into useful, happy, self-supporting manhood and womanhood the thousands of children whose misfortunes have made them the objects of tenderest love and care. 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.