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Excerpt from Lectures on Natural History: Its Relations to Intellect, Taste, Wealth, and Religion
The study of a single term, or a brief course of lectures, has generally been considered suf ficient for the great book of Nature, while two or three years are required on ancient languages before commencing the collegiate course. So that while almost every graduate considers himself competent to teach Latin, Greek, or Mathematics, probably not one in ten would offer himself as qualified to instruct in Natural History. 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.
