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We would say in conclusion, that if all who are engaged in the instruction of the deaf and dumb, act steadily under the influence of the principle, that results of character, constitute the grand design of our institutions, there is laid a broad foundation for the greatest harmony of feeling and the heartiest co-operation of effort in establishing and perfecting the best system of deaf-mute education. Then will our various institutions be as the different portions of one common field, which all are earnestly engaged to render a scene of moral verdure and fruitfulness, and the sphere of our labors will be seen to be one department of the great instrumentality, which divine providence is using to raise the human soul out of the depths of its ruin, and give it dignity and honor and blessedness forever.