Download or read book Nature and Culture Classic Reprint written by Harvey Rice and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature and Culture What exists beyond her domain, if any thing, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination; and yet the origin of the mate rial universe presents a problem which neither the vagaries of the ancients nor the specula tions of the moderns have been able to solve in a satisfactory manner. In modern methods of logic, we reason from cause to effect, from the known to the unknown but in attempting to penetrate the region of the unknown, we are often left without a reliable guide. Analogy may aid, but cannot assure us. The powers of the human mind, if not infinite, may admit of infinite culture. What is sup posed to be unknowable may therefore be come known. However this may be, there is no divine injunction which prescribes a limit to human possibilities. Whatever we may think or believe, the vol ume of Nature contains nothing but truth; it is a divine record which is as inexhaustible in its wealth of knowledge as it is conclusive in its logic. Men of science, in attempting to read this unerring record, have advanced many plaus ible theories in relation to the processes by which the earth acquired its embodiment, and took its place among the golden orbs of heaven. There are reasons for believing that matter has always existed in some form or other, and that it is infinite in extent as well as in duration. Nor need we hesitate to infer, from the knowl edge we have of the various forms in which matter exists, that what is true of the earth in its processes of development is equally true of every other planet. 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.
Download or read book Essays on Nature and Culture Classic Reprint written by Hamilton Wright Mabie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on Nature and Culture The art of living is the supreme art because it presents the widest range of material, and the most varied, delicate, and enduring forms of activity. Sculpture, painting, music, architecture, literature, taken together, are an expression of the human spirit realizing itself and its surroundings in the language of beauty; morality is the attempt of the same spirit to discern and live in right relations to other human Spirits; religion, its endeavor to establish and sustain fellowship with the Divine Spirit; philosophy, its effort to discover that final generali zation which shall put that spirit in command of the order of the universe; and history, the record of the struggle of that spirit to achieve. 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.
Download or read book Social Change written by William Fielding Ogburn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Change: With Respect to Culture, and Original Nature Suspended judgment is quite as necessary in the development of knowledge as bold theories, and should accompany them. 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.
Download or read book Nature in American Literature written by Norman Foerster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature in American Literature: Studies in the Modern View of Nature A land of promise, America is virtually without a past. Her children need not look far. Back to the founders of her civilization, 'a civilization not yet freed, and doubtless never to be freed, from its European prototype. The story of her culture - of her art, her philosophy, her educationmremains to this day an account of the transfer to a new world of the culture of modern Europe, modified, it is true, by the omission of an intimate sense of that august tradition which reaches back to the primitive Northern folks and the ancient Greeks and Hebrews, and by the addition of physical circumstances destined to affect profoundly her mind and heart. Elizabethan and Puritan in lin eage, America has approached maturity, has lived through her most impressionable years, in that con fused period of romanticism, democracy, and science from which the modern World has not yet emerged to clearness and faith. 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.
Download or read book The Book of Nature written by John Mason Good and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Nature Under an Italian Sky Classic Reprint written by Margaret Juliana Maria Dunbar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art and Nature Under an Italian Sky Various motives combine to make me wish to keep something like a Journal during our present tour. It is always a peculiar pleasure to me to possess a memorial of the past, especially if that past has been marked by change of scene, or the calling forth of new feelings; but to be able thereby to recall vividly those scenes and feelings, so as to share them with those who have either experienced or can sympathize with them, makes such a record more valuable still. The painful part of leaving England and our own quiet home just now. is the consequent separation from our dear child, thankful though we are that she will be most kindly and tenderly cared for. 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.
Download or read book Apple Blossoms and Other Stories written by Edmund Stanley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Apple Blossoms and Other Stories: Compiled for Culture and Nature Studies as Outlined in the Course of Study for the Public Schools of Kansas The reception given the Course of Study Shows how deeply the movement it represents has taken hold of the profession in this state, and how rapid has been the advance from mechanical method toward basic principles. The courses of study in thousands of Kansas schools have been modified more or less in accord with its plan, and correlation in the lower grades has proved a healthful stimulus alike to pupil and teacher. 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.
Download or read book Cultures and Institutions of Natural History written by Michael T. Ghiselin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cultures and Institutions of Natural History: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science This volume consists mainly of papers delivered at two meetings cosponsored by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The first, on the Culture of Natural History, was held in Milan, November 14 - 16, 1996. The second, on Institutions of Natural History, was held in San Francisco, October 5 - 7, 1998. They followed two earlier conferences on Biology as History (pinna and Ghiselin 1996; Ghiselin and Pinna 1996) likewise held in Milan and San Francisco. We intend to continue the series of meetings and have publications based on them in commemoration of the Academy's sesquicentennial in 2003. The emphasis here is mainly upon natural history museums and the kind of science that goes on in them. Although the essays were originally written to stand by themselves, when arranged in chronological order they suggest a common theme. To paraphrase Darwin, the culture and institutions of natural history have been, and are being, evolved. They have adapted to local circumstances, diversified, and sometimes even progressed. We may hope that the future holds more than just retrogression and extinction in store. Read as case studies the essays provide valuable insights into not just how, but why, the institutions have come into being and subsequently been transformed. Previous generations had quite different ideas than we do about how a collection of naturalia is supposed to function and how it should be organized. And there were conflicting goals and serious disputes about policy, much as there are today. Often, though not always, the institutions turn out to be very different from what had been envisioned by their founders. 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.
Download or read book The Nature Study Review 1916 Vol 12 Classic Reprint written by Elliot R. Downing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nature-Study Review, 1916, Vol. 12 Principles Of Plant Culture, E. S. Goff, 413 Program, Annual Meeting, 412 Propagation of Wild Birds, Her bert K. Job, 44. 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.
Download or read book Wild Nature s Ways Classic Reprint written by R. Kearton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wild Nature's Ways Job said, Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and no man who has ever honestly taken this advice to heart is in a position to gainsay its truth. To learn to appreciate the beauties of the world in which we live is a great victory. It establishes within us a never-failing source of pleasure, and enhances the value of existence a thousandfold. I would not exchange the every day joys of a healthy observant ploughman for the worrying wealth and cares of a millionaire. The idea that to be rich in gold is to be happy is a dying, vulgar fallacy. Men are coming to know that there are greater possessions than those which can be measured by the surveyor's chain or locked in iron safes. A love of Nature is one of them, and it has the unspeakably good quality of endurance. 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.
Download or read book Scientific Culture Classic Reprint written by Josiah P. Cooke Jun and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scientific Culture You have come together this morning to begin various elementary courses of instruction in chemis try and mineralogy. As I have 'been informed. 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.
Download or read book The Book of Nature written by John Mason Good and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Nature and Country Life Classic Reprint written by Catherine D. Whetham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Nature and Country Life Most of us, I believe, have far more chances of living with Nature and of trying to under stand the meaning and beauty of the world around us than we are at all able to profit by. We have eyes but we do not see, we have ears but we do not hear, and so we go through life, missing half the pleasures that have been pre pared for us, and understanding but a small part of what we do not miss. Let us therefore try to learn while we may, how to make good use of our time. The best way to begin is to go out into the country for a little while and look about us, and then, when we have remembered and thought over what we have seen, go again to find out if the things we notice are still there and look the same as they did before. Some of the ones we saw at first will have altered and new ones will have appeared. By going out at different times of the day and different seasons of the year we shall soon know what there is to be seen. This is the way in which artists and poets study the world, and find out a great deal more about it than most of us will ever do. They will not perhaps spend much time in the fields, but they will see a great deal, and remember some special part of what they have seen. They have this wonderful gift of observation. More over, they can afterwards tell us what they have seen, and can put down the meaning of it to them in colours or in words for us to study. 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.
Download or read book Nature and Its Natural Laws written by Jno; M. Sontag and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature and Its Natural Laws: A Practical Treatise on Poultry Culture for Market and Profit This Book will help the experts. It is also intended for those who are about to go into the Poultry business as a business on a large or small scale, and for hatching and raising by incubators and brooders for market purposes. All Poultry breeders have followed a few experts on Poultry and 999 out of every 1,000 failed who followed those so-called experts. Why? Because they really did not know how to instruct the breeders. They themselves could not prevent diseases, could not hatch or raise enough to make it pay. Not one of the experts, professors, doctors or writers of Poultry, etc., made it a special study for fifteen years. I honestly believe that all experts tried their best, and did not intend to mislead anyone who went into the business. Not one in fifty who have written books on Poultry and who have written articles in Poultry papers were practical and experienced on a large scale. They have tried it in a small way in their back yards, raising fifty to 100 chicks every year, and what they did raise, I dare say were not free from disease, nor did they raise half what they hatched. There are really only about fifty large breeders who raise 5,000 Ducks and Poultry every year. These make it pay by hard work and at a great expense. If the whole truth were known not half of these fifty can raise over half what they hatch. This is a great loss to breeders and this is the cause of so many failures. I have bred the so-called Standard Pure Blooded Poultry for many years, and side by side raised common Poultry hatched and raised by hens and also by incubators and brooders. I found that the common every day stock are more hardy, stand more exposure than the fine bred stock. But, the pure standard fowls can be made just as hardy as any fowls on earth if you only know how, and not one in 10,000 knows how. 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.
Download or read book Art and Nature Under an Italian Sky written by M. J. M. D. and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region Classic Reprint written by Elliot Rowland Downing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region Fortunately there is an ever-increasing number of persons. Both young and old, who are learning what fascination there is in the tales Nature spreads before our eyes in hill and dale, river and forest, bird and beast, flower and blade of grass. They are learning to read the landscape, to achieve a companion ship in the outdoors quite as real and as satisfying as that of a wise friend or a stimulating book. For such this book is written as an aid to an understanding of familiar surroundings. It is hoped the volume may serve as an advanced general science, particularly for those teachers who believe that science instruction at its best is an attempt to interpret the significance of the commonplace. It craves audience, too, of all those nature-lovers who desire an introduction to the study of the things about them as one means of culture. The several type regions are treated in separate chapters so that one may take it as a companion into the Dunes, the forest, the prairie, the river valley and learn by means of the brief descriptions and illustra tions to identify the plants, animals, and physiographic processes encountered, and appreciate something of their meaning. The author is indebted to Miss Helen Snyder for the care with which many of the drawings have been made. While the drawings, except as acknowledged in the text, have been made from the specimens, suggestions as to methods of expressing essential characters have been taken at times from the books mentioned in the list at the end of the volume. The author gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness. A few Of the half-tone illustrations are from negatives in the collection of the School of Education, for the use of which the author expresses his indebtedness. 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.
Download or read book Nature Study and Agriculture Classic Reprint written by Charles C. Schmidt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature Study and Agriculture The chapters are not all designed for use in the same grade. While most of the book is suited to young and old alike, such subjects as plant diseases, soils, and farm management are of interest only to the maturer pupils, and they are therefore treated somewhat more technically. It has long been the belief of the author that the beginning in the study of Agriculture should be made in Nature Study, in which is trained the power to see things in our physical environment as they actually are and to draw proper conclusions from them, and in which the learner acquires a good store of first-hand knowledge of plants and animals and other natural phenomena. In this book we make no attempt to draw an arbitrary dividing line between Nature Study and Agriculture. We shun the sentimental and essentially urban type of Nature Study that we have so often seen, and View Nature from the practical stand point oi those who live in actual contact with it. The aim has been to treat chiefly the topics whose study may yield knowledge of economic value. These may all be considered as belonging to a course in Agri culture. On the other hand, of the more technical subjects generally included in the comprehensive texts on general Agriculture designed for use in high schools, we present only those more essential ones usually prescribed in the modern courses of study for our common schools. 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.
