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Excerpt from Introductory Text-Book of Geology
Outset, but it will be found as he advances to be the more pleasant as well as more profitable mode of procedure. Every science, like every manual art, has a style and mode of handling peculiar to itself a fact too often lost sight of in volumes professing to be Popular Treatises and Easy Introductions. A. Soldier does not acquire the ready use of his musket by being trained to handle a broomstick; neither can a student become familiar with the truths of his science, or be taught to apply them, unless through the medium.
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