NATURE STUDY. 



PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICRS OF THE 



Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Vol. III. February. 1903, No. 9. 



Home Physiography. 



BY WILLIAM H. HUSE. 



The old geography was a compilation of facts to be 

 memorized without regard to what caused them — so many 

 miles, so many people, so many tons or yards, so many 

 states or countries as bounds ; the new geography is dis- 

 tinguished by its account of the processes that have made 

 the world what it is and are at work to-day. This is the 

 cause of the complaint from those not yet weaned from the 

 old things that there is too much physical geography, in 

 the new books and that political geography is crowded out. 

 It is evident to those who have observed and was plain to 

 those who made the new books that children are more in- 

 terested in physics than in politics. 



Yet with nothing but books the childish minds do not 

 study physical facts but words. It is easier (for the teach- 

 er) to confine the lessons to the textbook but that is not 

 education. The words are committed to memory and good 

 per cents are sent home to admiring parents and shown to 

 parental committee men, but the children have been rob- 

 bed of all their innate love for nature and it is seldom re- 

 covered. 



