Excerpt from Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the Italian Language: Adapted for the Use of Schools and Private Teachers The empirical or practical system is in accordance with nature. It may be that experimental philosophy, which, since the days of Bacon and Galileo, has for ever dethroned the ancient jargon of the schools of logic and metaphysics, has also contributed to the improvement of the method of teaching languages; or it may be that the two constant facts, that a child learns so easily its mothen tongue, and an adult so readily a foreign language, by residence n a country where it is spoken, could not be forgotten. But whatever may have been the immediate cause of the improve ment, it is certain that books of practical oral teaching have sup plied a deficiency that was deeply and extensively felt in this country, as is evidenced by the welcome reception and rapid sale of Mr. Arnold's Latin Lessons, and the French and German Grammars of Professor Ollendorff. 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.