ADVERTISEMENT.
"The best mode of exciting the love of observation is by teaching 'How to Observe.' With this end it was originally intended to produce, in one or two volumes, a series of hints for travellers and students, calling their attention to the points necessary for inquiry or observation in the different branches of Geology, Natural History, Agriculture, the Fine Arts, General Statistics, and Social Manners. On consideration, however, it was determined somewhat to extend the plan, and to separate the great divisions of the field of observation, so that those whose tastes led them to one particular branch of inquiry might not be encumbered with other parts in which they do not feel an equal interest."
The preceding passage is contained in the notice accompanying the first work in this series—Geology, by Mr. De la Bèche, published in 1835. Thus, the second work in the series is in continuation of the plan above announced.
CONTENTS.
| PART I. Requisites for Observation. | Page | |
| INTRODUCTION | [1] | |
| CHAP. I. Philosophical Requisites. | ||
| Section I. | [11] | |
| Section II. | [14] | |
| Section III. | [21] | |
| Section IV. | [27] | |
| CHAP. II. Moral Requisites | [40] | |
| CHAP. III. Mechanical Requisites | [51] | |
| PART II. What To Observe | [61] | |
| CHAP. I. Religion | [68] | |
| Churches | [80] | |
| Clergy | [84] | |
| Superstitions | [90] | |
| Suicide | [94] | |
| CHAP. II. General Moral Notions | [101] | |
| Epitaphs | [108] | |
| Love of Kindred and Birth-place | [111] | |
| Talk of Aged and Children | [113] | |
| Character of prevalent Pride | [114] | |
| Character of popular Idols | [118] | |
| Epochs of Society | [122] | |
| Treatment of the Guilty | [124] | |
| Testimony of Criminals | [129] | |
| Popular Songs | [132] | |
| Literature and Philosophy | [137] | |
| CHAP. III. Domestic State | [144] | |
| Soil and Aspect of the Country | [153] | |
| Markets | [154] | |
| Agricultural Class | [155] | |
| Manufacturing Class | [157] | |
| Commercial Class | [158] | |
| Health | [161] | |
| Marriage and Woman | [167] | |
| Children | [181] | |
| CHAP. IV. Idea of Liberty | [183] | |
| Police | [184] | |
| Legislation | [188] | |
| Classes in Society | [190] | |
| Servants | [192] | |
| Imitation of the Metropolis | [196] | |
| Newspapers | [197] | |
| Schools | [198] | |
| Objects and Form of Persecution | [203] | |
| CHAP. V. Progress | [206] | |
| Conditions of Progress | [209] | |
| Charity | [213] | |
| Arts and Inventions | [216] | |
| Multiplicity of Objects | [218] | |
| CHAP. VI. Discourse | [221] | |
| PART III. Mechanical Methods | [231] | |