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First Book in Chemistry: For the Use of Schools and Families (Classic Reprint)
First Book in Chemistry For the Use of Schools and Families - Classic Reprint Author:Worthington Hooker Excerpt from First Book in Chemistry: For the Use of Schools and Families — The idea of this book was suggested by a lady, who is a stranger to mo, in a letter, a portion of which I will quote here. "I can not tell you how much pleasure I have had in teaching the Child's Book of Nature to my little daughter. In giving my own opinion of that work ... more »I am also expressing the opinion of several other mothers of my acquaintance, who agree with me in pronouncing it the very best book of the kind which we have ever found. It is so plain and simple in its arrangement, that any child of common capacity can learn it with case and remember it well The subjects upon which it treats are of a kind to interest all children, and the pleasant way in which you bring them forward is sure to awaken their powers of observation and comparison, and, better still, to lead them 'through Nature up to Nature's God.' It seems to me that an elementary book on chemistry, upon the same plan, would be interesting to children, especially if they could have some simple and safe experiments which they might try for themselves."
Soon after receiving this letter, I pot the matter to a test in the following manner: I selected a few of those school-rooms in the public schools of New Haven in which the scholars were from eleven to thirteen years of age.
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