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"Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to ..." — Alexander Graham Bell
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
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View AllFrom my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.— Alexander Graham Bell
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