Margaret E. Darton
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 396
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Excerpt from The Earth and Its Inhabitants The great object of this little Work is to make the study of Geography so interesting to Children by lively sketches and entertaining facts relating to the different countries and their inhabitants, that their minds may not only be impressed with geographical knowledge, but awakened to many other subjects of interest associated with it. Many of the explanations in the earlier chapters have been made particularly clear, from the belief that children are too often supposed to know the meaning of terms, which, though perfectly simple to us and appropriate in themselves, convey little light to their minds and cause them to take no interest in what would otherwise be intelligible and entertaining. When long lists of names are learned by a mere effort of memory, they are often painfully acquired and easily forgotten. 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.