The Rollo Philosophy Author:Jacob Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sion to have understood completely a difficult philosophical subject so easily. He looked a little ashamed; but Jonas presently relieved him by saying that he wa... more »s going to drive the cow to pasture, and asking ,Rollo to go with him, and tell him what he had learned by the way. Rollo asked his mother's leave, and then they went along, Rollo having first put his paper boat down by the side of the pump. As they walked along, Jonas asked Rollo to tell him what he had learned about the attraction of cohesion; and so Rollo repeated, as well as he could, his father's conversation. He told him that the particles of water cohered to each other, and adhered to almost all other substances, whenever they came in contact with them. On the whole, he gave the substance of the information which he had received, pretty correctly; though, as usual with beginners in all studies, he spoke fai too confidently, and made his assertions in too general and unlimited a manner. " Very well," said Jonas; " I read something about it in a book once, and I should like to have you answer me some questions I thought of." "Well, I will," said Rollo. " If you can," said Jonas. " O, I think I can," said Hollo, " for father explained it all to me, perfectly." " The first question is the dropping question," said Jonas. " When I try to drop any medicine from a phial, after it gets a going, it drops well enough; but at first it won't ran easily. It acts just as you say the mercury does. It keeps back in the phial, and heaps up at the edge, and does not want to go along over the glass." " O, that is because the glass is dry," said Hollo, readily. " You must wet it with your finger, and then it will run. That is the way my mother does." " Yes, but why don't it run of itself," rejoined Jonas, "and we...« less