THE 



REASONS-WHY: 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Giving: Reasons for Hundreds of Interesting- Facts in connec- 



tion with. Zoology ; and throwing- Lag-lit upon the Pe- 



culiar Habits and Instincts of the Various 



Orders of the Animal Kingdom. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF 



''MI; HIBUCAL REASON WHY ;" " THE REASON WUY : GENERAL SCTENCB ;" *' i 

 Wirui.v ;" l THAT'S IT : OR, PLAIN TEACHING ;*' " TIIE CORNER (.'.urmuKD ;" ETO. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. 



We proceed here by the luduct.ive Process, taking nothing on trust, nothing for 

 granted, but reasoning upwards from the meanest fact established, and making 

 every step sure before going one beyond it like the engineer in his approaches to a 

 fortress. We thus gain, ultimately, a roadway, a ladder, by which even a Child 

 may, almost without knowing it, ascend to the summit of Truth, and obtain that 

 immensely wide and extensive view which is spread beneath the feet of the aston- 

 ished beholder. 



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 DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS, 



No. 18 ANN STREET. 



