Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
METHODS OF STUDY IN NATURAL HISTORY
I
II
III
AGNES OF SORRENTO
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PENANCE
CHAPTER XIX. CLOUDS DEEPENING
THE TRUE HEROINE
JEFFERSON AND SLAVERY
A STORY OF TO-DAY
PART IV
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
PER TENEBRAS, LUMINA
LOVE AND SKATES
PART I
CHAPTER I. A KNOT AND A MAN TO CUT IT
CHAPTER II. BARRACKS FOR THE HERO
CHAPTER III. HOW TO BEHEAD A HYDRA!
CHAPTER IV. A CHRISTMAS GIFT
CHAPTER V. SKATING AS A FINE ART
CHAPTER VI “GO NOT, HAPPY DAY, TILL THE MAIDEN YIELDS.”
LIGHT LITERATURE
PILGRIMAGE TO OLD BOSTON
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF A STRENGTH-SEEKER
FREMONT’S HUNDRED DAYS IN MISSOURI
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BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN, ESQ., TO MR. HOSEA BIGLOW
OLD AGE
REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES
OBITUARY
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It is my intention, in this series of papers, to give the history of the progress in Natural History from the beginning,—to show how men first approached Nature,—how the facts of Natural History have been accumulated, and how those facts have been converted into science. In so doing, I shall present the methods employed in Natural History on a wider scale and with broader generalizations than if I limited myself to the study as it exists to-day. The history of humanity, in its efforts to understand the Creation, resembles the development of any individual mind engaged in the same direction. It has its infancy, with the first recognition of surrounding objects; and, indeed, the early observers seem to us like children in their first attempts to understand the world in which they live. But these efforts, that appear childish to us now, were the first steps in that field of knowledge which is so extensive that all our progress seems only to show us how much is left to do.
Aristotle is the representative of the learning of antiquity in Natural Science. The great mind of Greece in his day, and a leader in all the intellectual culture of his time, he was especially a naturalist, and his work on Natural History is a record not only of his own investigations, but of all preceding study in this department. It is evident that even then much had been done, and, in allusion to certain peculiarities of the human frame, which he does not describe in full, he refers his readers to familiar works, saying, that illustrations in point may be found in anatomical text-books.1
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“I have thought of it,” faltered Agnes.
“Beware how you trifle with the holy sacrament! Answer frankly. You have thought of it with pleasure. Confess it.”
