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Excerpt from Principles of Chemical Philosophy The object of the author in this book is to present the philosophy of chemistry in such a form that it can be made with profit the subject of college recitations, and furnish the teacher with the means of testing the student's faithfulness and ability. With this view the subject has been developed in a logical order, and the principles of the science are taught independently of the experimental evidence on which they rest. It is assumed that the student has already been made familiar with this evidence, and with the more elementary facts which the philosophy of the science attempts to interpret. At most of our American colleges this instruction is given in a course of experimental lectures; but for less mature students a course of manipulation in the laboratory will be found a far more efficient mode of teaching, and some preliminary training of this kind ought to be made one of the requisites for admission to our higher institutions of learning. This book is intended to supplement such a course of practical instruction. It deals solely with the theories of the science, and with those principles which can only be acquired by study and application. The author has found by long experience that a recitation on mere facts, or descriptions of apparatus and experiments, is to the great mass of college undergraduates all but worthless, while the study of the philosophy of chemistry may be made highly profitable both for instruction and discipline. 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.