Excerpt from Class Book of Natural Theology: Or the Testimony of Nature to the Being, Perfections, and Government of God
A Class Book of Natural Theology, adapted, both in matter and price, to our numerous schools of a higher order, has long been wanted, and the want regretted by many judicious parents and teachers. In respect to the increasing number of our seminaries for young ladies, especially, the want has, hitherto, had no remdy in the form of a text-book. In that justly popular and invaluable work, Paley"s Theology Illustrated, there are, it is found, some things not well adapted to the ordinary circumstances of female instruction, and even of young gentlemen in many of our more common select schools; but, for our higher seminaries of learning, for our colleges and theological institutions, this work is considered indispensable.
A distinct object with the Editor of the following work, has been to render it strictly appropriate both to the public and private education of Young Ladies; there being no topic in it which may not be discussed with entire propriety under any circumstances.
The Notes will be found important and interesting; and the adaptation of the whole to Paxton"s admirable Illustrations, is too obviously useful and attractive to require comment.
The Biographical Notices, suggested by the Editor"s knowledge of the general deficiency among the young in this kind of literature, are necessary to intelligent students, to whom large works on Biography, Encyclopedias, &c. are not accessible. The place of residence and the works, as well as the circumstances of the honored benefactors of the world, and the period when they flourished, ought early to be known. This kind of knowledge is, to the young, naturally interesting; and the result is, or ought to be, a grateful remembrance of such men, and a disposition to profit by their labors.
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