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S.G. Howe on secregation of the disabled

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Title: Ceremonies on Laying the Corner-Stone of the New York State Institution for the Blind, at Batavia, Genesee Co., N.Y.
Author: Howe, Samuel G.
Description: 53 pp. (8vo) original wrappers. Woodcut illustration on front wrapper and title page. First Edition.Original printing of an historically significant speech by Samuel Gridley Howe, physician, anti-slavery crusader and husband of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” author Julia Ward Howe. Before the Civil War, Dr. Howe was founder and first Director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind. But in this startling post-war speech, he warned against segregating people with disabilities in such Institutions: "We should be cautious about establishing artificial communities for those who have natural infirmity…" they should be kept diffused among sound and normal persons. Surround insane and excitable persons with sane people and ordinary influences
Heading: vicious children with virtuous people and virtuous influencesPlace Published: blind children with those who see
Publisher: mute children with those who speak"…"."" A revolutionary departure from accepted philanthropic notions of Howe's day, now praised as far ahead of its time."
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