Excerpt from Philip's Experiments: Or Physical Science at Home I could not draw the simplest object, and it seemed the height of egotism to presume to teach drawing to Philip. I was supported, how ever, in my method by a remark in Ruskin's Elements of Drawing, which I will quote: For the recommendation to the pupil to copy faith fully, and without alteration, whatever natural object he chooses to study, is serviceable, among other reasons, just because it gets rid of sys tematic rules altogether, and teaches people to draw, as country lads learn to ride, without sad dles or stirrups; my main object being, at first, not to get my pupils to hold their reins prettily, but to sit like a jackanapes, never Off (page xiv, preface). I determined to require a drawing of some thing from Philip every day. When I returned from the city, almost the first question I asked was, Well, what have you drawn to-day and when he brought his sketch to me I criticised it with him, and suggested certain improvements. 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.