Excerpt from An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences: Being a Comprehensive System of the Elementary Parts of an Useful and Polite Education; Adapted to the Use of Schools in the United States; Illustrated by Numerous Engravings of Subjects in Natural History; And a Variety of Statistical Tables An Epitomeof the Arts and Sciences: being a comprehensive system of the Elementary parts of an useful and polite Educa tll; adapted to the use of schools in the United Illustrated by numerous en wings of subjects in Natural gravy, and a variety of gausucal Tables The second 'tion. No one is obliged to learn and know every thing, for it is utterly all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understandings. Presume not too much upon a bright genius, a ready wit, and good these, without labor and stud will never make a man of knowlege and wisdom i atts on the mind. 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.