Excerpt from Three Industrial Nations: An Industrial Geography of England, Germany, and the United States Three Industrial Nations has been prepared for grammar grade pupils whose study of Geography in the intermediate classes has given them a sufficient basis for an understand ing of the data herein contained. It assumes that man's industrial activity, growing out of his reaction on the earth's natural resources, is the chief subject of study in Geography. The book is, therefore, an elementary indus trial text. During the last decade the public has asked that the schools lay stress on essentials, and that our courses prune away incidentals, seeing that the limitations of time and of the physical and mental powers of the child preclude the study of everything. Hence, instead of following the time-honored custom of treating all the corners of a conti nent, important and otherwise, in a single volume, three of the leading nations of the earth have been Chosen. 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.