Examples of household taste . e different races of productiveness of the earth and the wealth of raw material require thetransforming hand of man, skilled in the arts and sciences, to change these 50o THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. rich gifts of nature into products which satisfy the needs of civilized commu-nities. A country which possesses abundance of the raw material of trade andcommerce, but whose people are deficient in manufacturing skill or the tastewhich directs it, must of necessity be inferior to another country, equally blessedin natural resources, but whose manufactur
Examples of household taste . e different races of productiveness of the earth and the wealth of raw material require thetransforming hand of man, skilled in the arts and sciences, to change these 50o THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. rich gifts of nature into products which satisfy the needs of civilized commu-nities. A country which possesses abundance of the raw material of trade andcommerce, but whose people are deficient in manufacturing skill or the tastewhich directs it, must of necessity be inferior to another country, equally blessedin natural resources, but whose manufactures are directed by the highest influ-ences that art and science can employ. From this aspect skill becomes amatter of the highest importance, and its general development and application the surest mate-rial foundationfor a nationsprosperity. The diffusionof a sound sys-tem of generaleducation is con-sidered to be thesurest safeguardof liberty we nowneed is a de-velopment ofgeneral educa-tion in the direc-. ^^&m^^ wwimmmmm Skazul: Compagnie des hides. tion of art andscience, to placeus on an equalitywith the oldernations in theapplication oftrained skill tothe elevation ofindustrial manu-factures. We cannot ex-port corn and oiland cotton andpork, and importFrench bronzes,or German por-celain, or English carpets, without being the sufferers; for the years work of six men in pro-ducing such exports will hardly pay for the years work of one skilled artisanwhose imported handiwork we appreciate and buy. Just to that extent we arethe losers, and with this view it would seem to be our duty to provide ourworking and productive citizens with such opportunities of acquiring skill aswill place them on an equality with their compeers in other countries of theworld, thus ensuring to them an equality of productive power and value fortheir labor to that possessed by the same classes in other countries. It needs but the example offered by France to convince us how great as
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