Excerpt from Industrial Exhibitions and Modern Progress Since at the very outset of all serious thought, not only upon political and social, but even strictly industrial and economic questions, we have to substitute for the notion of more individual moneyinaking that of the aggregate produc tion of material wealth, there can be no better standpoint for an intelligent survey of modern progress than that afforded by an international exhibition. This inust be viewed, however, not merely as an extensive bazaar with attached places of amusement, but as a central museum of industry; too vast and costly for permanence, but all the more fully illustrative of production, and of social progress in every respect. Moreover, since each exhibition is the highest expression of the industrial possibilities and general civilisation of its place and time, a retrospect of the great exhibitions, from that of London in 1851 to that of Paris in 1878, is seen to involve a retrospect alike of the advances of production' and the arts, and of progress in health and education, in social feeling and public life. Nor is an exhi bitiou a landmark of progress merely, but a starting-point as well; it is filled not only with the flower of present industry, but with the seed of that of future years. And this latter aspect is not the less important. The results of each exhibition this come up for consideration and, avoid ing the vague rhapsodies of progress which usually have to do duty for this, we must attempt a fair summing-up of the advantages and drawbacks of past exhibitions, of their gqqq. 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.