Excerpt from Elements of Physics, Vol. 1: Ponderable Bodies

Tnn study of the physical sciences has become of 1 almost universal; partly because it has been found v suited to cultivate habits of observation and reasoni which cannot fail to be of use in the business of life, a partly because the practical application of scientific p) ciples to the details of almost every department of mm facturing and agricultural industry, has rendered sc acquaintance with natural philosophy and chemistry im pensable. Instruction in these branches of knowle now forms part of the education given to most boys school: to meet their requirements so many treatises h already been published, that to add to the number n seem a mark of presumption. To this objection translator was not altogether insensible whilst prepar the present Text-book for the press; he believes, howew that on examination it will be found that the man now ofl'ered to the public occupies ground not taken up any existing treatise on Natural Philosophy, for the wo on this science in our language are, almost without caption, either purely theoretical, or they are, in the stricw sense of the term, popular.

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