QP 38 A35 902567 EDITOR'S PREFACE. THIS little work is founded on one published under the same title by Dr. ALCOTT, a popular American writer. In presenting it to the English public, the Editor proposes to supply a deficiency which is acknowledged to have been long felt by teachers in schools, and by instructors of youth in general. His hope is, that, from the unpretending plainness of its style, the clearness of its descriptions, and the author's happy tact in illustration, the book will be found a valuable addition to the elementary works for the instruction of youth of both sexes. When well grounded in its contents, the young reader will be the better enabled to comprehend and to appreciate the reasoning of PALEY, and other writers on Natural Theology, to whose works this will be found an appropriate introduction. In preparing the present edition for the Eng |