The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . secondary education,thereby ensuring fortheir industries andmanufactures the po-tent influence of skilland knowledge in artand science, we havebeen content to go oninventing labor-savins: INDUSTRIAL ART. 499 machines and pro-cesses, and neglectingthe technical educationof the people ; regard-less of the fact that inthis rapidly progress-ing age, labor withouttaste or skill is a com-paratively worthlessthing, and is paid forat the lowest the other hand, theproducts of skilled la-bor are like currencyin every civil
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . secondary education,thereby ensuring fortheir industries andmanufactures the po-tent influence of skilland knowledge in artand science, we havebeen content to go oninventing labor-savins: INDUSTRIAL ART. 499 machines and pro-cesses, and neglectingthe technical educationof the people ; regard-less of the fact that inthis rapidly progress-ing age, labor withouttaste or skill is a com-paratively worthlessthing, and is paid forat the lowest the other hand, theproducts of skilled la-bor are like currencyin every civilized coun-try, and are paid lorat the highest matters nothingwhether they are tobe found in Paris,London, Berlin, Mu-nich, Rome, or Japan,they will be sought forand secured at anyprice by those whohave the taste to ap-preciate and the meansto buy them. It is of such ideasas these that Inter-national Exhibitions conditions which modern civilization has imposed onThe productiveness of the earth and the wealth ottransformino- hand of man, skilled in the arts and. Bcaitvais Tapestry. are the offspring. Theworld is competingmore in the produc-tion of quality thanquantity, and raw ma-terial in the bulk issjettincr to be a lessprecious freight thanthe triumphs of thestudio, the furnace orthe loom. Thoughtfulmen begin to see thatthe mere power ofproduction in indus-trial manufactures, andeven the exceptionaladvantage of a closelyprotected and exten-sive home market fortheir consumption, arenot of themselvesalone sufficient to defycompetition and se-cure the market. Theysee what experiencehas demonstrated, thatthe possession of natu-ral resources is not ofitself sufficient to en-sure the prosperity ofa people under thethe different races of material require thesciences, to change these 500 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. rich gifts of nature into products wliicli satisfy the needs of civihzed commu-nities. A country whicli possesses abundance of the raw material of
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