Excerpt from An Essay on the History and Management of Literary, Scientific, Mechanics Institutions The year 1851 will ever be memorable as the epoch of the Great Exhibition. We then witnessed, collected into one focus, the best results of the skill, taste, and industry of the world. Different nations, longer rivalling each other in military contests or diplomatic chicane, tried whether peace could t show more glorious victories than war! Each learnt by comparison its peculiar merits or special deficiencies, and every member of that Congress of Nations was benefited by the lesson. Of the many consequences flowing from this grand organisation of the products of industry, we te the steady rise of a feeling for the industrial education of the people in the minds of those whose interest in the Exhibition was t confined to the temporary amusement of a few hours. If so much had been done without any special culture on the part of the people, how much more might be done with it? 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 techlogy 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.