AUTHOR OF PRACTICAL AND MENTAL ARITHMETIC, THE PRODUCTIVE GRAMMAR, STEREOTYPE EDITION HARTFORD: PUBLISHED BY JOHN PAINE. 1842. "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 ILLUSTRATED BY FACTS AND EXPERIMENTS WHICH ARE LEVEL TO THE CAPACITY OF ORDINARY MINDS." QUARTERLY REVIEW. 66 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 06-30-36718E PART FIRST: I. 1. NUMBER, which shows how many are meant, is represent- ed by letters, by words, and by characters' called figures, as :- Fifteen. cc ... CCC Fifty thousand . . . . L or 1000 One hundred thousand, or ccciɔɔɔ . 100000 *Or, III for 4; vIIII for 9; xxxx for 40; LXXXX for 90; and cм for 900, 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. |