Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Everyday Objects: Or Picturesque Aspects of Natural History
Let us take, for example, the study of nature. N 0 science, assuredly, Ought to prove more attractive to the mind than natural history. Yet mark h'ow repulsive zoology, botany, and mineralogy are made at the very outset, by the dry ness of their nomenclatures and the dreariness of their classifications. Undoubtedly, it is necessary to lay down a course of study in the midst of the marvels which every where surround us; undoubtedly names are required for the objects which attract our notice. But are not the methods we employ directly Opposed to the end we set before ourselves?
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