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Excerpt from Natural Philosophy, for Schools, Families, and Private Students, Vol. 1
Effects of the study of nature upon the mind. Philosophy. Difference be tween the philosophy of nature and natural philosophy.
Botany, and Zoology. Natural Philosophy takes a different View of the same Object; matter in all its valions forms, constituting animals, plants, rocks, earth, air, water, &c. &c. Demands the attention Of the student in all these sciences but it is inorganized matte1 only, or that which is not in¿u enced by a living principle that comes within the depart ments of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy. The two lat. Ter sciences may be considered as bearing a relation to each other like that of the microscope and telescope, the one looks at objects near by, and scrutinizes their minutest parts, while the other takes a more general survey, and Operates upon a much broader scale.'
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