Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-06-12


waters. Fiction in her widest flights has never dared
to imagine such scene. Here is the whole world
concentrated in point in space:-that whichls
the active life of the universe-the mighty and null
hilarious action by which all mans material and most
of his intellectual wants are suppled-brOught for
the first time into single point of view. The con-
ceiying mind, the productive energy, the unfailing
sinew as well the inexhaustibe stores of nature
are all here. In that beautiful collection of mineral
SpeclmenS-in that series OF Liverpool 1mpOrtS-ln
that mass of agricultural implements, -Science will
point TO the thousand triumphs of patient and labor
Gus work. Every rack, wall, she'd and counter tells
tale and conveys lesson Here, is a colossal map
of Manchester, now confessedly the second town in
England; yet many men will look at that wall who
recolect time when the town obscure and I'M
noted place, with quarter of its present population
and about much weight in the country as Edmon-
ton or HornSey. There, is the Messrs. APPLICANTS
printingpress striking its ten thousand copies per
hour of paper containing more type than an octave
volume. Estimate the distance between the labori-
Gus process of printing employed by Caxton with the
seampower of Applegath, and the difference will be
the measure of the growth of our Fourth Estate du-
ring the last three centuries and three quarters. Ey-
erywhere we find evidences of new arts Inventions
processes, or materials. Among these, photography
phonotypy guapercha, printing in colors, and tele
! graphs occupy prominent position.
When the feeling of novelty and beauty is little
Gained, the mind becomes impressed with an idea
that all the objects are dwarfed-by the vastnesS of
the whole Here is one of the revelations of true re-
lation. The hugh beech trees under the transept no
longer look like the giants of the Park they
few months ago. Figures which in private rooms
were colossal are apparently reduced to the human
size. looking glass OF extraordinary dimensions
looks but trhe too large for a good drawing rooms
and the new lighthouse appears like moderate-szed
bird-cage.
Among the miscellaneous articles which lend
charm TO the Exhibition the stained glass win
dows in the west end and along the north gallery of
the eastern nave,-the great diamond, Koh-i-noor,-
the collection Of Towering plants-and the bee-hives
and live bees. In collection of The industries Of
nations, il is not inappropriate that corner should
be found for the most industrious of insects Means
provided for their exit from the Building into the
Park and Kensington Gardens, where they will no
doubt find sweets enough TO feed during the spring
and summer; and the hives are arranged that the
visitors will be able to how the little colony of
workmen proceed in their nevcr-ending toll.
But the mind fails TO comprehend at once the mean
ings of this majestic scene and the pen falls far be-
hind the possibility of an attempt at describing it,
The morals multiply on every hand and grow at ev-
cry minute. Not the least suggestive effect of this
great gathering Is, we have said the contrasts which
il supplies. The prince and the peasant are here
brought into close and immediate juxtaposition. The
Queen is considerable contributor; and to the
royal specimens may be the contribution of the
milliner's girl and the poor needle-woman. There
may be some consolation 10 the humble operative in
the human equality which is thus made APPARENT
in the feeling that she is free competitor nthiS CON
test of art and skill with the majesty of Eng
land. Not of slight importance TO the claims and in
terests of Labor is it, that the whole attention of the
world has been thus drawn by irresistible attrac
tion to this subject THAT for the year past and the
yea TO come the conversation OF philosophers and
statesmen, the literary and tie fashionable worlds
has been and will be 10 large extent the topic of in
dustry and its agents Here is of the feelings
which grow dwell them,-t this takes
very striking and significant form. Here, for the
first np in urp Of no
that rule the work. takes its Just relations. Over all
the assembled aristOcraces here, LABOR is Presi-
dent. Industry is lie Genius of the None of
the social influences or illustrations are abSent-and
the eve glanceS up the tall shafts and down the
long receding aisles of the marvellous structure it
self, wanders over the wondrous walls and through
the crowded corridors, it is felt that the men of
science and the men of toll who do their bidding
are the chiefs in this great assembly The elements
OF Imperial strength are revealed in their fit proper
tons and fall into their true relations The royal pa
geant of the day had a beauty and an interest for
Us such never have found in any heradic pa
gean before, simply because, like all else here, ii
was homage 10 the spirit of the place Out of this,
good of many kinds must The ovation of
Labor the position of the Laborer it is fair
TO expect, may be somewhat changed for the better:
permanently improved in the general opinion and
consideration of society, if not at in his positive
material condition. The one will lead to the other in
time.
The western nave affords one contrast worth men
tioning :-there, have the types and expressions
of two worldS-the past and the future. Mr.. Pugin
has here set up lis picturesque traditions of the med
ieval tme,-grOin and cross, painted window and
Gothic arch. Mr.. Plat, working with another set of
ideas and materials, shows by actual trial the whole
process and mystery of that staple manufacture on
which the greatness of England in a large measure
repoSes. The cotton trade it was always said, ena
bled us TO bear the vast expenses of the last war
the spinning jenny helps 10 support millions of
people who without its aid must either emigrate
die. Intensely attractive, therefore, must be the
means and machinery by which il is continued and
upheld in its supremacy. Though far from
being nsensble TO the merit OF such fancies the
Medieval Art reStorer may indulge in, we confess TO
paramount interest in the combinations of the Old
ham machinist. Beginning with the ''devilp and
ending with the loom,-his collection of machinery
contains complete series for the manufacture of
cotton. Nor does less interest attack 10 the other
specimens of that practical agency by which our
greatness is achieved,-the steam-engines the loco
motive, the paper-nakihgy hine, the wool jenny,
and the omnibus In each of these Instruments
most of them opposed on the first introduction by
prejudice and ignorance combined as detrimental To
manual labor, and likely 10 supersede the human ma
chine-the thinker will read history of human pro-
gress, developed gradually, but rapidly and grandy
under the new influence brought TO bear the indus
trial world 1t is well known 10 statists that without
mechanical powers OF a very advanced and compii-
Gated kind the present population of England could
not possibly be maintained on the soil. Machinery
does the heavy work of ife,-and labor is now
chiefly confined to its superintendence. Without the
machinery, the amount of work could not be done
II is calculated that in Great Britain alone there is
employed at this moment scientific power equal to a
thousand million of horses. AS every horse requires
as much land for pasturage would suffice to feed
eight men, ii follows that every thousand added to
the number which already exists would displace eight
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