This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ... Fielding, Smollett, Scott, and Dickens, --and not the exciting interest of their stories, --that will lead you to relieve an hour with their volumes, when overworn with labour, and unfit for sterner thought or study. But sterner thought than that of poetry or prose fiction must employ your leisure, if you would turn ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ... Fielding, Smollett, Scott, and Dickens, --and not the exciting interest of their stories, --that will lead you to relieve an hour with their volumes, when overworn with labour, and unfit for sterner thought or study. But sterner thought than that of poetry or prose fiction must employ your leisure, if you would turn it to solid account in acquiring the Knowledge which is Power. There is the mighty volume of Nature to be studied--that volume in which the learning of our times is a thousand times richer than all the ages preceding. Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, Mechanics, Zoology, Botany, --of these, and all the branch sciences into which they are divided, --the books of our contemporaries contain treasures of experimental knowledge the value of which to mankind is beyond price, even now; but only in the great Future, when all shall share the benefits of knowledge, will the full value of Science be known. The great tendency of the thought of our age is to science; and if you be ignorant of it, you can scarcely be said to belong to the age in which you live. The nomenclature of all these sciences may be easily mastered, --and how cheaply! William and Robert Chambers, in the three-halfpenny numbers of their 'Information for the People, ' furnish you with it. In their recent issue, too, of this work, they have added an outline of all that is new in science, --while they point you to authorities who deal with their subjects more deeply. And even if the works they refer to are beyond your reach, when the technical terms of a science are mastered, and an outline of it is laid up in the mind, you can scarcely take up a newspaper, or a fugitive periodical, in this scientific age, without finding some fragment of information, which you can add to your stores of that specie...
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