Essay on Education: In Which the Subject Is Treated as a Natural Science, in a Series of Familiar Lectures (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from Essay on Education: In Which the Subject Is Treated as a Natural Science, in a Series of Familiar Lectures Those who have read Buffon know the attraction which that learned man has strown over the pages of his work. True, not in every case will some of his hypotheses hold good with the present march of observations, but even in their supposed errors they are full of sublimity and of beauty. I now have a lively recollection of the curiosity and wonder with which my young thoughts dwelt on his beautiful theory of the earth, as also on his penciling of the soul-proclaiming lineaments of the human hand. 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. |
