Note 2 — Chapter XVII · THE UNNECESSARY STORY OF MRS. BEN WAH AND HER PARROT
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Footnote 2: "The experiment has been long tried on a large scale, with a dreadful success, affording the demonstration that if, from early infancy, you allow human beings to live like brutes, you can degrade them down to their level, leaving them scarcely more intellect, and no feelings and affections proper to human hearts."—Report on the Health of British Towns.[Back to Main Text]