 The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 4941867Full view - About this book
 | John Rusk - 1901 - 524 pages
...laws and the conquest of nature by compliance with them. The central idea of this Exhibition of 1851 was to give a true test, and a living picture of the point at which civilized man had arrived in carrying out his mission, and to serve as a basis of operations... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1910 - 452 pages
...summer it fulfilled what Prince Albert had explained to be its object, namely, " to give a true test and living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind had arrived." We have grown used to great international displays in the last fifty years, and Colonel Sibthorpe's... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 pages
...improved upon and surpassed by competing effort. . . . The exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true text and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point, from which all nations will be able to direct... | |
 | 1914 - 136 pages
...conquer nature to his use ; himself a divine instrument. Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 404 pages
...to all branches of science, industry, and art. . . . Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1920 - 402 pages
...to all branches of science, industry, and art. . . . Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 185i is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct... | |
 | Asa Briggs - 1975 - 368 pages
...the Great Exhibition of 1851, which dominated the year. Its purpose was "to present a true test and living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived . . . and a new starting point, from which all nations will be able to direct their further... | |
 | Edward Cornish - 1977 - 322 pages
...and we can traverse them with incredible ease. . . . Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct... | |
 | Ullrich Kockel - 1994 - 228 pages
...communicated with the rapidity and even by the power of lightning. . . The Exhibition is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task. The Consort's speech is the primal statement of our dilemma. On the... | |
 | Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 pages
...of the division of labour' was the 'moving power of civilization,' and that the Great Exhibition was a 'living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived'?8 However, a great stumbling block still had to be overcome, one that had damped down... | |
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