Excerpt from Louisiana and the Fair, Vol. 9: An Exposition of the World, Its People and Their Achievements The classification of the St. Louis Exposition has been highly complimented by the exposition authorities of the world. It was so prepared as to present a sequential synopsis of man's development, or, rather, of the develop ments that have marked man's progress. On these bases was assembled the most highly organized and perfected exposition the world has yet seen - possibly the last of the kind to be submitted to the present generation. The St. Louis classification was divided into 16 depart ments, 144 groups, and 807 classes. These grand depart ments in their order recorded what man has accomplished at this time with his faculties, industry, and skill, and the natural resources at his command in the environment in which he has been placed. 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.