Part 1

Science Primers. INTRODUCTORY.

PROFESSOR HUXLEY, F.R.S.

=Toronto:=

CANADA PUBLISHING CO.,

(LIMITED.)

Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-one by MACMILLAN & CO., LONDON, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART. SECT.

I. NATURE AND SCIENCE.

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1. 〃 Sensations and Things 5

2. 〃 Causes and Effects 5

3. 〃 The reason Why. Explanation 6

4. 〃 Properties and Powers 7

5. 〃 Artificial and Natural Objects. Nature 8

6. 〃 Artificial Things are only Natural Things shaped and brought together or separated by Men 8

7. 〃 Many Objects and Chains of Causes and Effects in Nature are out of our reach 10

8. 〃 The Order of Nature: nothing happens by Accident, and there is no such thing as Chance 10

9. 〃 Laws of Nature; Laws are not Causes 12

10. 〃 Knowledge of Nature is the Guide of Practical Conduct 14

11. 〃 Science: The Knowledge of the Laws of Nature obtained by Observation, Experiment, and Reasoning 16

II. MATERIAL OBJECTS.—(A.) MINERAL BODIES.

12. 〃 The Natural Object Water 19

13. 〃 A Tumbler of Water 20

14. 〃 Water occupies Space; it offers Resistance; it has Weight; and is able to transfer Motion which it has acquired; it is therefore a form of Matter 20

15. 〃 Water is a liquid 21

16. 〃 Water is almost incompressible 22

17. 〃 The meaning of Weight 24