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Title: A Book of Exposition

Author: Homer Heath Nugent

Release Date: October 31, 2004 [EBook #13910]

Language: English

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A BOOK OF EXPOSITION

EDITED BY

HOMER HEATH NUGENT

LAFLIN INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH AT THE RENSSELAER
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1922

PREFACE

It is a pleasure to acknowledge indebtedness to my wife for assistance
in editing and to Dr. Ray Palmer Baker, Head of the Department of
English at the Institute, for suggestions and advice without which this
collection would hardly have been made.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE EXPOSITION OF A MECHANISM
THE LEVERS OR THE HUMAN BODY. SIR ARTHUR KEITH

THE EXPOSITION OF A MACHINE
THE MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE. PHILIP T. DODGE

THE EXPOSITION OF A PROCESS IN NATURE
THE PEA WEEVIL. JEAN HENRI FABRE. Translated by Bernard Miall

THE EXPOSITION OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESS
MODERN PAPER-MAKING. J. W. BUTLER PAPER COMPANY

THE EXPOSITION OF AN IDEA
THE GOSPEL OF RELAXATION. WILLIAM JAMES
SCIENCE AND RELIGION. CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTES

INTRODUCTION

The articles here presented are modern and unhackneyed. Selected
primarily as models for teaching the methods of exposition employed in
the explanation of mechanisms, processes, and ideas, they are
nevertheless sufficiently representative of certain tendencies in
science to be of intrinsic value. Indeed, each author is a recognized
authority.

Another feature is worthy of mention. Although the material covers so
wide a field--anatomy, zo