Excerpt from High School Physical Geography
The authors have striven to adapt this book to the earlier stages of the high-school course. To this end the statements are simple, technical terms are sparingly used, and when employed they are promptly defined. Thus approached, Physical Geography may well serve to introduce young students to the spirit and method of science. The aim of the volume as thus set forth will explain the omission of a few of the more difficult conceptions of land physiography which appear in some school texts.
The treatment, so far as possible, is concrete. Wherever practicable, each subject is opened with a type case, in the description of which the terminology is called forth and the principles begin to appear. Other examples follow, with a systematic statement of principles, and the principles are further illustrated by application. This is believed to be in the line of good teaching, and is a method to which our subject lends itself with special effectiveness.
While the principles of Physical Geography belong to the earth as a whole, and type cases are cited from all regions, the greater emphasis is put on our continent. A separate chapter on North America would pass our limit of space, but when the entire text has been read, all the greater features of the continent will have received attention.
The average judgment of teachers has been sought in apportioning the space to the several greater departments of the subject. Nearly one-half is given to the lands. The relation of organisms to the earth is introduced wherever appropriate, and the two closing chapters add further illustrations, and treat the principles in a systematic way.
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