AUTHOR OF PRACTICAL AND MENTAL ARITHMETIC, THE PRODUCTIVE GRAMMAR, STEREOTYPE EDITION HARTFORD: PUBLISHED BY JOHN PAINE. GLOGE ARTUR PLUSPTON JANUARY 25, 1924 66 IT IS NOT EASY TO DEVISE A CURE FOR SUCH A STATE OF THINGS, (THE DECLINING TASTE FOR SCIENCE;) BUT THE MOST OBVIOUS REMEDY IS TO PROVIDE THE EDUCATED CLASSES WITH A SERIES OF WORKS ON POPULAR AND PRACTICAL SCIENCES, FREED FROM MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS AND TECHNI CAL TERMS, WRITTEN IN SIMPLE AND PERSPICUOUS LANGUAGE, AND ILLUS- THE FIRST THING TO BE REQUIRED IN A SYSTEM OF POPULAR INSTRUCTION, IS, THAT IT SHOULD BE INTELLIGIBLE; THAT CHILDREN AND YOUTH SHOULD UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY LEARN. UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY LEARN? IT MAY BE ASKED; WHAT ELSE CAN THEY DO? WE ANSWER, THAT THEY MAY COMMIT IT TO MEMORY, MAY RECITE IT, MAY EVEN MAKE A FAIR SHOW OF KNOWLEDGE, AND YET KNOW NOTHING. WE HAVE NOT THE LEAST HESITATION IN SAYING, THAT TWO OR THREE YEARS, IN THE EDU CATION OF ALMOST EVERY INDIVIDUAL IN THIS COUNTRY, HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY UPON STUDYING WHAT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. HARTFORD, STEREOTYPED BY RICHARD H. HOBBS. ARITHMETIC. I. 1. NUMBER, which shows how many are meant, is represent- ed by letters, by words, and by characters' called figures, as:— *Or, 1111 for 4; VIIII for 9; xxxx for 40; LXXxx for 90; and Cм for 900, manner the prefixing of c and the annexing of ɔ to ciɔ increases it 10 times as cio, 1000, ccɔɔ, 10000; lastly a line over any number increases it 1000 times: as, D, 500, 5, 500000. NOTE. L. stands for the Latin language; G. for the Greek and F. for the French. 1 ARITHMETIC, [G. arithmétiké.] Computing, calculating or reckoning by numbers. 2 MENTAL, [L. mentis.] Pertaining to the mind; intellectually. 3 NUMERATION, [L. numeratio.] Numbering; the method or act of numbering. 4 REPRESENTED, Exhibited; described; personated; to supply the place of, 5 CHARACTER, A mark; a stamp; a letter; reputation; a personage, VII OT 100MM 7000 |