. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. ar; the arch is 215 feethigh and from fifty to one hundred feet wide,with a span, in its broadest part, of ninetyfeet. Three natural bridges have been dis-covered recently in Utah, each being largerthan the one in Virginia. The AugustaBridge in Utah is the largest in the world. NATURAL HISTORY, in its widest sense,that department of knowledge which com-prises the sciences of zoology and botany,chemistry, physics, geology, palaeontologya
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. ar; the arch is 215 feethigh and from fifty to one hundred feet wide,with a span, in its broadest part, of ninetyfeet. Three natural bridges have been dis-covered recently in Utah, each being largerthan the one in Virginia. The AugustaBridge in Utah is the largest in the world. NATURAL HISTORY, in its widest sense,that department of knowledge which com-prises the sciences of zoology and botany,chemistry, physics, geology, palaeontologyand mineralogy. The term is most frequentlyused to denote collectively the sciences ofbotany and zoology, and it is sometimes re-stricted to the latter. NATURALISM, nafure alizm, a philo-sophical term which indicates various de-batJible principles of the universe on thetheory that nature furnishes a-satisfactoryexplanation of all questions concerning iinderlying type of most philosophies istheism, or belief in one superhuman power orspiritual controller of the universe. Nat-uralism opposes this view and declares otherexplanations must be ATURALIZATION, the process wliereby a personrenounces allegiance tothe land of his birth andbecomes a citizen of an-other country. Formerlymany countries refusedto recognize any act ofnaturalization as exempt-ing the party naturalizedfrom former the maxim of Eng-lish common law, Oncean Englishman, alwaysan Englishman, forbadea subject from adopting a new politicalstatus and rendered him liable to the penal-ties of treason, if found in arms against hisnative country. The existence of this prin-ciple gave rise to many disputes, more par-ticularly between Great Britain and theUnited States, and it was not till the passageof the Naturalization Act of 1870, that itscontention was formally abandoned byBritain. When a person from another country be-comes by naturalization a citizen of theUnited States he is invested wi
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