Excerpt from Elements of Drawing and Perspective: With Directions for Sketching From Nature The utility of Drawing, as a department of School Instruction, though acknowledged by all who have given much reflection to Theoretical Education, is not by any means a familiar idea to the bulk Of the community. It may therefore be proper, in this place, to state the grounds on which reflecting persons have arrived at the conclusion, that children of every grade should be made acquainted to a greater or less extent with the art of Drawing. The faculties employed in the imitative arts are possessed, in a certain degree, by all persons. Some possess these faculties in so great a. Degree, as to become fitted to exercise them as a profession, for the gratification of mankind at large. In Others, the gift is manifested in so moderate a degree, that a protracted effort to make such persons become tolerable draughtsmen, would only be labour thrown away. The majority, however, are so far endowed, as to be able, when instructed, to delineate any simple Object, and to enjoy much higher delineation: produced by others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.