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The ROLLO BOOKS by JACOB ABBOTT. NEW YORK: T. Y. CROWELL & CO.

SO HE TOOK UP A SMALL COAL OF FIRE.—Page 97.

ROLLO’S PHILOSOPHY.
[FIRE.]

THE ROLLO SERIES
IS COMPOSED OF FOURTEEN VOLUMES, VIZ.:
Rollo Learning to Talk.
Rollo Learning to Read.
Rollo at Work.
Rollo at Play.
Rollo at School.
Rollo’s Vacation.
Rollo’s Experiments.
Rollo’s Museum.
Rollo’s Travels.
Rollo’s Correspondence.
Rollo’s Philosophy—Water.
Rollo’s Philosophy—Air.
Rollo’s Philosophy—Fire.
Rollo’s Philosophy—Sky.
A NEW EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

PREFACE.

The main design in view, in the discussionswhich are offered to the juvenile world, underthe title of The Rollo Philosophy, relatesrather to their effect upon the little reader’shabits of thinking, reasoning, and observation,than to the additions they may make to his stockof knowledge. The benefit which the authorintends that the reader shall derive from them,is an influence on the cast of his intellectualcharacter, which is receiving its permanent formduring the years to which these writings areadapted.

The acquisition of knowledge, however, thoughin this case a secondary, is by no means anunimportant object; and the discussion of theseveral topics proceeds accordingly, with regularity,upon a certain system of classification.This classification is based upon the more obviousexternal properties and relations of matter,and less upon those, which, tho

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