Excerpt from The Making of Pictures: Twelve Short Talks With Young People<br><br>It has always been so it may be safely said that it will continue to be so; while in the period in which we live, when mechanical adjustments and scientific processes have varied the methods of Ob taining pictures, and multiplied their number almost infinitely, a very large part of the education of our country is carried on by means of pictures. They are found in all directions: magazines are profusely illustrated; books and papers are full of them; the photograph, the lithograph, the engraving, are produced in enormous quantities in Short, we live in a world of pictures, and consciously, or uncon sciously, we are receiving numberless impressions from them. It is these impressions which, as I have just said, educate us; for all sorts of ideas regarding men and things find their way to our minds through seeing pictures which represent what is going on in life.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.