Excerpt from Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science, Vol. 7: May, 1914 Clearly we cannot look to the family for anything better than negative help in this; in general it supplies no interest in nor knowledge of scientific, scholarly or even mechanical affairs; seriousness of interest or purpose seems to be lack ing, and at least a generation would be required to build it up, even if the willing spirit were present. Nor are all of the certificated members of our profession prepared to do such work, their whole training being toward a different end. Even. The text books Of to day show the same effort to separate life and education by omitting more and more the references to the practical applications of scientific law that gave such interest to books like canot's Physics, of blessed memory. 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.