INTRODUCTION 



TO DETAILED SYNTHESIS. 



SOME persons delight to do, say, and write that which is 

 novel, merely for the sake of novelty ; while others dare not 

 leave the beaten track, either distrusting their own judgment 

 or fearing criticism. Again, some persons are attracted by any 

 novelty, merely because it is novel ; while others, for the same 

 reason, condemn it without examination. 



In this work, however, everything has been written with 

 sole regard to the good of the pupil ; and it is anxiously desired 

 that teachers should examine and use it in the same spirit, and 

 without bias or prejudice. 



Neither are they presented with any untried novelty ; the 

 success which has attended the course pursued in this work may 

 assure them that in their hands it also will produce all the re- 

 sults they desire. 



The preceding remarks have been made because, though the 

 succeeding Part of this work, being Synthetic, is more like the 

 plan usually pursued than the Analytic method, and the infer- 

 ential style of the First Part, yet there are in the method and 

 style of the Synthetic part conspicuous, distinguishing features 

 that cannot fail to be noticed as novel ; and the question may be 

 asked, Why not adopt some of the usual methods ? 



They are not discarded for the sake of something new or 

 peculiar, but because they are not sufficiently systematic and 

 compact, and because scholars, by their diligent use, do not 

 acquire that thorough understanding of these most practical of 

 all subjects that is desirable and possible. For when there has 



