Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

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Adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

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This evening we're relaxing with science primers and introductory

by Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, first published in 1880 by Macmillanin Co, London.

Let's begin. Part 1, Nature and things.

All the time that we are awake, we are learning by means of our senses, something about the world

in which we live and of which we form apart. We are constantly aware of feeling or hearing or

smelling and unless we happen to be in the dark of seeing. At intervals we taste. We call the

information thus obtained sensation. When we have any of these sensations, we commonly say that we feel or hear or smell or see or taste something.

A certain scent makes us say we smell onions,

a certain flavor that we taste apples, a certain sound that we hear a carriage,

a certain appearance before our eyes that we see a tree,

and we call that which we thus perceive by the aid of our senses

a thing or an object.

two causes and effects.

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