Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
And if you have ever happened to look at a butchers stall, or to have seen any one prepare a rabbit or a hare, you know that the ox, the sheep, the pig. the rabbit, and many other animals have an internal organization more or less similar to our own. Thus in studying animals pretty closely we study pur own selves, and you can all easily conceive how very interesting this must be. But the first difficulty that presents itself is, to, determine with which part of our wide and interesting subiect we shall begin; and I have no doubt you would foet Vouweivei yiu0T iata a los?; Jkfc fdwe to decide this. I will give you my opittiprti (lii Uid course of these last years, since you were quite little children, we have learnt together a great many things about animals; your reading books, story books ana picture books have also given you instructive and attractive information on the same subject. You all know, as well as I do, that the lion is a great African animal that kills and devours oxen and even men; that the ostricli is a large bird that lives also in the African desert, and you may have pretty correct notions about sharks, rattle snakes, humming birds, crocodiles, camels, and so on. Now that you have grown big, we must give up learning all these things at random, and arrange all our notions of animals in proper order, for this is the only way to retain what we learn, and to be able to profit by it. We will complete our knowledge as we go along. For this purpose we must not study animals the one after the other, without method. We must follow out what naturalists call a classification, and group together the animals that have the greatest resemblance to each other, so as to avoid having to repeat in reference to each of them that which they all have in common. Thus we will put all the birds side by side, and say once for all that they all have a beak, wings and
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