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Excerpt from Arnold on the Education of the Deaf: A Manual for Teachers The original edition of Arnold's Education of Deaf Mutes; 'a Manual for Teachers, published by the College of Teachers of the Deaf in i8s8, ' having become exhausted, I was invited by the Committee of that body to undertake the publication of a new and revised edition of that work, a task which I have felt it my duty to accept and carry out to the best of my power. The original work undoubtedly met a pressing Want, created partly by the examinations of the above and other Colleges, and partly by the felt want of some systematic exposition of the special methods, especially the oral, of educating the deaf. While thus proving its value, it was obvious from both a technical and literary point of view, that it had many and grave defects which seriously militated against its utility either as a text book or as a work of reference. There is now no need to particularize these defects suffice it to say that the entire work has been subjected to a thorough revision, with the result, as I venture to hope, that its utility in this new edition has been thereby increased, as well as by (i) a better division and arrangement of the contents, so as to facilitate study and reference, (2) abridging or re-writing such parts as were considered to require it, and (3) elimi nating super uous or irrelevant matter, and in some cases substituting what is likely to prove more useful. It may be advisable to state in more detail what has accordingly been done. 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."