Excerpt from The Privilege of Education: A History of Its Extension

Abnormal children - sense and mental defee tives - were allowed by the ancients to die from exposure, to be sold into slavery, or to be gen erally neglected. The advent of Christianity brought about a decided change with respect to the exposure of children to die, but failed in every respect to better their condition through training of a suitable character.

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