Excerpt from American Magazine of Homoeopathy, 1852-1853, Vol. 2: Containing Also Popular Articles on Water Cure, Movement Cure and Health Keeping It is but little creditable to the most of our institutions of learning, that while they provide for instruction in the science of minerals, the courses of the stars, the habits of insects, and the division of plants, the various tongues of the race, the annals of the wars of that race, and the revolutions of its governments, they for the most part, make no provision, by which their pupils may acquire a knowledge of their own common nature, may learn the springs of life, the fountains of health and disease, In endeavoring to present a connected view of the rela tions of man, it seemed necessary to preface with some notice of the planet which is his present home - an outline of its origin and its preparation for becoming his abode. In doing this, Ihave not the presumption to form any definite Opinion among the conflicting theories of leading geologists. I have merely aimed, from among them to select such, as, while sanctioned by great names, should, at the same time, afford the most picturesque view. 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.