Excerpt from Elements of Geology: A Text-Book for Colleges and for the General Reader Ix preparing the following work I have not attempted to make an exhaustive manual to be thumbed by the special student; for, even if Ifelt able to write such a work, Prof. Dana's is already in the field, and is all that can be desired in this respect. I have endeavored only to present clearly to the thoroughly cultured and intelligent student and reader whatever is best and most interesting in Geological Science. I have attempted to ...
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Excerpt from Elements of Geology: A Text-Book for Colleges and for the General Reader Ix preparing the following work I have not attempted to make an exhaustive manual to be thumbed by the special student; for, even if Ifelt able to write such a work, Prof. Dana's is already in the field, and is all that can be desired in this respect. I have endeavored only to present clearly to the thoroughly cultured and intelligent student and reader whatever is best and most interesting in Geological Science. I have attempted to realize what I conceive to be comprised in the word elements, as contradistinguished from manual. I have attempted to give a really scientific presentation of all the departments of the wide field of geology, at the same time avoiding too great multiplica tion of detail. I have desired to make a work which shall be both interesting and profitable to the intelligent general reader, and at the same time a suitable text-book for the higher classes of our colleges. In the selection of material and mode of presentation I have been guided by long experience, as to what it is possible to make interesting to a class of young men, somewhat advanced in general culture and eager for knowledge, but not expecting to become special geologists. In a word, I have tried to give such knowledge as every thoroughly cultured man ought to have, and at the same time is a suitable founds tion for the further prosecution of the subject to those who so desire. The work is the substance of a course of lectures to a senior class, organised, compacted, and disencumbered of too much detail, by re presentation for many successive years, and now for the first time reduced to writing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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