Charles Sumner: “Even the idiot, so abject in condition, is found at last to be within…”

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Even the idiot, so abject in condition, is found at last to be within the sphere of education.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that even those deemed 'idiots' possess the capacity for education and growth.

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Charles Sumner: “Even the idiot, so abject in condition, is found at last to be within the sphere of education.”