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Title: How to Observe
Morals and Manners

Author: Harriet Martineau

Release Date: October 5, 2010 [EBook #33944]

Language: English

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HOW TO OBSERVE.
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MORALS AND MANNERS.

BY
HARRIET MARTINEAU.

"Helas! ou donc chercher, ou trouver le bonheur?
----Nulle part tout entier, partout avec mesure."
VOLTAIRE.

"Opening my journal-book, and dipping my pen in my ink-horn, I
determined, as far as I could, to justify myself and my
countrymen in wandering over the face of the earth."
ROGERS.

LONDON:
CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO. 22, LUDGATE STREET.
1838.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

ADVERTISEMENT.

"The best mode of exciting the love of observation is by teaching 'How
to Observe.' With this end it was originally intended to produce, in one
or two volumes, a series of hints for travellers and students, calling
their attention to the points necessary for inquiry or observation in
the different branches of Geology, Natural History, Agriculture, the
Fine Arts, General Statistics, and Social Manners. On consideration,
however, it was determined somewhat to extend the plan, and to separate
the great divisions of the field of observation, so that those whose
tastes led them to one particular branch of inquiry might not be
encumbered with other parts in which they do not feel an equal
interest."

The preceding passage is contained in the notice accompanying the first
work in this series--Geology, by Mr. De la Beche, published in 1835.
Thus, the second work in the series is in continuation of the plan above
announced.

CONTENTS.

PART I. REQUISITES FOR