Excerpt from On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities, Deaf and Dumb We will give the principal passage upon the subject from Braeton in his own words, which will be the more interesting, as it shows that the law did not at that time admit, or rather it denied, the possibility of the Deaf and Dumb expressing their will or consent, even by signs; a state of things not remarkable, when it is remembered that the learned Spaniard Vives, nearly two centuries later, questioned, merely from the inherent in credibility of the thing in his view, the statement of the Heidel burg Professor Agricola, that he had seen a young man, born Deaf and Dumb, who had learned to understand writing, and to note down his whole thought. (de Anima of Vives, lib. Ii, cap. De Discendi Ratione, and see De Inventione Dialecticae of Agri cola, lib. Iii.) The passage from Braeton is as follows. 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.