Excerpt from The Great World's Farm: Some Account of Nature's Crops, and How They Are Grown In the attempt, however, to employ the teaching of science as a means of education, to develop, that is, the innate mental faculties of a child, there are several dangers to which we are exposed: we may, for instance, make our subject so uninteresting that it becomes an irksome exercise of patience and memory, and so loses all its distinctive educational value; or, again, we may give much useful information, and even teach valuable lessons of observation, accuracy, and method, but fail to impart a sense of proportion, to show the inter dependence of Nature as a whole, or the relation of our particular subject of study to others of equal importance. 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.