The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 52: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, April, 1852 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 52: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, April, 1852 It seems to me as if I were one of the persons who have the least right of any to address an audience like this on the subject of the Great Exhibition of the Art and Industry of All Nations, of which the doors have so lately closed; inasmuch as I have had no connection with that great event, nor relation to it, except that of a mere spectator - one of the many millions there. The eminent and zealous men in whose wide views it originated, by whose indomitable energy and perseverance the great thought of such a spectacle was embodied in a visible, material shape; those who, from our own countries or from foreign lands, supplied it with the treasures and wonders of art; those who, with scrutinizing eye and judicial mind, compared those treasures and those wonders, and stamped their approval on the worthiest; those who can point to the glories of the Exhibition, and say, "quorum pars magna fui;" - those persons may well be considered as having a right to express to you the thoughts which have been suggested by the scenes in which they have thus had to live: but of these I am not one. I have been in the Exhibition, as I have said, a mere spectator. 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.