A Catechism Of Zoology A Natural History Of The Animal Kingdom

Author : Robert Kemp Philp
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330060674
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Reason Why, Natural History Giving Reasons for Hundreds of Interesting Facts in Connection With Zoology written by Robert Kemp Philp and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Reason Why, Natural History Giving Reasons for Hundreds of Interesting Facts in Connection With Zoology: And Throwing Light Upon the Peculiar Habits and Instincts of the Various Orders of the Animal Kingdom The series of Popular Information volumes so happily introduced to the great public the general title of The Reason Why, has met, throughout, with such a flattering reception, that the present valuable addition to it, might well present itself sans all preliminaries. Relieved, therefore, from the propitiatory embarrassments common to most prefaces, we feel at liberty to point out that "The Reason Why - Natural History" differs materially from all other works on the same subject, and will be found to depart very agreeably, in its main characteristics, from that ideal of it which the mind of the reader would naturally set up in advance. In other words, it is not a dry, formal disquisition, on animated nature, (like many useful things, very excellent and very insipid,) but a chatty, sociable, entertaining combination of scientific facts, with illustrative anecdotes, clothed in language that the ordinary reader will readily understand, and made piquant to the rudest taste, by a copious commentary in the shape of pictorial accompaniments. It will have been observed that The Reason Why, in all its phases of instruction, (In "The Biblical Reason Why," for instance, in "Inquire Within," in "That's It, or Plain Teaching," and so on,) has made it a special endeavor to so combine mental amusement with mental education, that the most indifferent to the acquisition of knowledge might be tempted into the pathways of learning, and discover themselves eagerly gathering the flowers of wisdom while fancying that they culled for pastime, a few blossoming weeds of quaint attractiveness. That endeavor has resulted in a success exceeding all anticipation, and has bestowed on The Reason Why a popularity surpassing its authors most extravagant estimate. This Natural History sequence has been prepared with a careful eye to the same acceptable peculiarity. It is free from everything calculated to shock the most delicate sensibility. It contains not a line to which the rigid purist can take exception. It sedulously avoids all sectarian, as well as all sectional differences of opinion. It treats the harmonies of nature in their manifold varieties of form and animation, with an amiable conservatism admirably in unison with the subject; and it accomplishes its purpose with an engaging seductiveness that is irresistibly effective. 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.