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Excerpt from Natural Philosophy: For Common and High Schools
To this end, the following plan ought to prevail in present ing elementary facts. an easy experiment or some phenom enon of common occurrence, is to be introduced and the atten tion of the child directed to certain appearances and condit ions, after which he mav be called upon to notice the truth which these appearances suggest. A concise and accurate statement of the fact or principle itself, in form to be easily remembered, may finally complete the investigation. 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.
