Excerpt from A d104book in General Science and the Economics of Daily Life A science, as the term is usually employed, implies a grouping of the facts and phenomena of some one field of human knowledge according to certain general statements known as theories and laws. Botany, for instance, is a classification of man's knowledge of plants, and of the conditions for their growth. It makes possible the study of plants in groups rather than one by one. But in General Science as a high school subject selections of topics for study are made from any and all of the secondary school sciences. These topics are studied for the general purpose of giving scientific explanations to whatever affects daily life in so far as they lend themselves readily to elementary scientific discussions. Some theory is given as needed in these explanations, but there is little or no regard to whether the facts and explanations have to do with any one science or another. Sufficient experimental phenomena are to be provided in laboratory exercises and classroom demonstrations. The topics are supposed to be more or less familiar through the common experiences of childhood and youth, and of such a nature as to foster a scientific spirit. This text seeks to relate for schoolroom uses the teachings of science and the common experiences of life. Its discussions are designed to stimulate a desire on the part of pupils for information concerning everyday phenomena readily obtainable from high school science texts, and from reference books suited for use in elementary science teaching. Some of the discussions of the text though elementary in character will present difficulties for beginners. 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.