The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ame classes in other countries. It needs but the example offered by France to convince us how great astrain any country can bear whose industries are fortified by skilled labor. INDUSTRIAL ART. SOI Perhaps no other country, with possibly one exception, could have paid thepenalty of milliards of money for foreign aggression, besides bearing the enor-mous cost of her own military operations, without becoming ruined and to-day the skilled manufactures of France are righting the country, andwith the power of suprem
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . ame classes in other countries. It needs but the example offered by France to convince us how great astrain any country can bear whose industries are fortified by skilled labor. INDUSTRIAL ART. SOI Perhaps no other country, with possibly one exception, could have paid thepenalty of milliards of money for foreign aggression, besides bearing the enor-mous cost of her own military operations, without becoming ruined and to-day the skilled manufactures of France are righting the country, andwith the power of supremacy in taste she claims tribute from the whole periodical occurrence of International Exhibitions enables us to see therelative progress made by different nations in the broad fields of industrial art and science, andto those whohave been fortu-nate enough towatch this pro-gress from thefirst exhibition inLondon, in 1851,to the last inPhiladelphia, in18 76, the changesmade have beenvery great. Thepresent is pre-eminently an ageof revival in artin many of the. Shaw/ : Compagnic des Indcs. old countries,andthe influence ofsuch that we haveenjoyed this yearhas been to en-courage such re-vivals, and createa general loveof art where it isnot an ancientstory. It is not toomuch to say thatin the exhibitsof every countryparticipating in these general displays, there has been evidence of a striking improvement, aseach exhibition succeeded the last, in all the sections containing objects ofindustrial art. The example of successful manufacturers and the masterpiecesof designers have influenced the -enterprise and skill of those whose success,through want of sufficient skill, has not been what they desired. The objection which some manufacturers have raised against InternationalExhibitions, that they gave opportunities for the weak to imitate the strong,and placed the accumulated experience and success of the few at the serviceof the many, must be regarded as a pow
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