Excerpt from Huntington's Introduction to Modern Geography, for Beginners and Common Schools: Preparatory to the Use of His and Other Larger Works Upon the Subject, Illustrated by a Variety of Cuts, and Accompanied by a New and Corresponding Atlas, Drawn and Engraved on Steel Expressly for the Work
The kind of language employed is not an afi'ectation of childish talk, or the puerile language of the nurser but plain and pure English; in order that the learner ma be stimulat to continual inquiries into the meaning of words, and that is knowledge and taste in the use of language may be gradually improving.
Moral and religious reflections are occasion ally interspersed. Of what use is learnin unconnected with virtue? What benefit, public or private, to be deriv from literary studies or attainments, unless they serve to elevate and expand the youthful mind; to remove vulgar prejudices, to dissuade from grovelling pursuits, and to promote m genuous vlews, feelings.
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