THE 



REASON WHY: 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Giving: Reasons for Hundreds of Interesting- Facts in connec 

 tion with Zoology ; and throwing lag-ht upon the Pe 

 culiar Habits and Instincts of the Various 

 Orders of the Animal Kingdom. 





BY THE AUTHOR OF 



ML HIBUCAI REASON WHY ;&quot; &quot; TUB BBABOVWltr: GENERAL SCIENCK :&quot; &quot; i.NQrrui 

 Wiriu.v ; : l THAT S IT : OR, PLAIN TEACHING ; &quot; THE CORNER i. .unuukD ;&quot; ETO. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS EXGRAVINGS. 



We proceed here by the InducT.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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