Arithmetic: Practically Applied, for Advanced Pupils, and for Private Reference, Designed as a Sequel to Any of the Ordinary Text-Books on the Subject

Excerpt from Arithmetic: Practically Applied, for Advanced Pupils, and for Private Reference, Designed as a Sequel to Any of the Ordinary Text-Books on the Subject

The appearance of my name on the title page of this Arithmetic, requires me to state the extent of my connection with its authorship, and of my responsibility for its execution.

Believing the idea of the work to be original, I will attempt its elucidation. In seeking for the elements or materials of its questions, it proposes to take a survey of all the vocations of life, of all the facts of knowledge, and of all the truths of science, and to make a selection from each department of whatever may be most interesting and valuable. It does not confine itself to the playthings of the nursery, or to the commodities of the market place, and to the money they will cost, or make, or lose. On the contrary, the present work proposes to carry the student over the wide expanse of domestic and social employments; to introduce him to the various departments of human knowledge so far as that knowledge has been condensed into tables, or exhibited in arithmetical summaries, and to make him acquainted with many of the most wonderful results which mathematical science has revealed. Instead of groping along the mole-path of an irksome routine, with little other change than from dollars and cents, to pounds and pence, or some other familiar currency, and with little other variety than from cloth to corn, or some other common-place commodity, it derives its examples from biography, geography, chronology, and history; from educational, financial, commercial, and civil statistics; from the laws of light and electricity, of sound and motion, of chemistry and astronomy, and others of the exact sciences. Trades, handicrafts, and whatever pertains to the useful arts, so far as they are the subject of numerical statement, and their facts possess arithmetical relations, together with all the ascertained and determinate results of economical or political knowledge, and of scientific discoveries, arc laid under contribution, and are made to supply appropriate elements for the questions on which the youthful learner may exercise his arithmetical faculties.

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