Excerpt from Nature Displayed: Designed to Excite the Youthful Mind to Piety and Virtue The following Book is partly compiled from a small work, entitled The Catechism of N ature, and translated from the Dutch Its object is to give the Young, for whom it is chiefly designed, an early acquaintance with the Wisdom and Goodness of the Almighty, as displayed in the works of Creation - and, to promote this laudable design, it has been enlarged to its present size, in the form of Dialogues between a Father and Son. If it tend to awaken in the youthful mind, admira tion of his Power, without whose creative word was not any thing made that was made. 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.