The Three Kingdoms of Nature

Excerpt from The Three Kingdoms of Nature: Briefly Described The facilities of our minds are developed in succession, as we advance in age, each of them reaching its maximum, and then gradually diminishing. In childhood, the senses acquire their greatest developement; in boyhood and youth, the memory and imagination; in early manhood the purely reasoning faculties; and in adult life, the judgement. A rational system of education should be guided by the physiological law here laid down. The child should be instructed mainly through his sensations; the boy should learn Languages, ancient and modern, and Natural History, so far as it depends on observation; the youth should cultivate Mathematics and Logics; while studies, such as Ethics, Physiology, and Politics, should be reserved for the more mature period of life, in which the judgement corrects the rash conclusions founded on mere memory and reason. Considered from the foregoing point of view, the neglect of Natural History, as a school study, appears most unaccountable, as it is inferior to no other study - not even Language - as a means of cultivating the memory and observation. 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.