The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-16

industrial exhi bitiOns are powerful agencies
for the diffusion OF knowledge. BY them. farm
era and nechsncs have done moch to promote
their interests They are becoming not merely
part but the soul Of school system. 10 New
York "3cHoLARs' FAIRs" are held twice year.
At some Of these exhibitions more than half OF
the States 10 the Union have been represented.
by specimens Of penmanship, drawings, needle
work, mechanism, minerals, plants, she'is, or
other productions Of nature and OF ART
After exhibition comes distribution school
products from yourg hands and generous hearts
in the Empire city have been sent to all nations
A professor from the Glasgow University, on
receiving several hundred specimens, remarked,
81 never saw anything so beautiful; shall dis
tribute them through Scotland" Great numbers
have been sent abroad by foreign ministers, con-
suls, and other government functionaries OF
different nations. A Senator of the United
States has proposed provision under our gov
eminent for collecting, by consuls and other
functonaries abroad, information, by specimens
and otherwise, Of practical science; especially
such az relates to the interests OF farmers and
mechanics The provision only needs to be
made to have the object accomplished IA great
object.
BY members of Congress, judges, school
superintendents, teachers, scientific conventions,
and other agencies, specimens OF Juvenile skill,
from the New York schools have been sown
broadcast over our entire country. few days
since several beautiful drawings were received
from that source. prepared expressly for the
President of the United States among them a
head of Washington with exquisite finish.
These specimens from the Empire city have put
in train some from our national city for the same
object. By great law of mind those who radi
ale most light are themselves most enlightened.
Hence the New York schools stand highest in
their own character, because they have done
most to raise the character of others.
Works of nature and Of art, used for inter
changes, have led to a Worlds Fair, and
must lead to Fairs" all ovsr the world. Indus
trial exhibitions and SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES
are rapidly maturing into system-THE GREAT
SYSTEM, not for the consolidation of impractica.
BILE theories and deceptive speculations, but the
diffusion of productive science. In most Of the
States commissioners supernterdents, or other
school officers, are provided by legislative enact
,nents for counties In some States these officers
are required to hold meetings." CONVENTION
OF SCHOOL. i'm all their townships, precincts,
election districts, or other civil divisions in their
respective counties. Such conventions are at
least the beginnings of industrial exhib,ions-of
course, scientific exchanges. When matured in
each State, and assimilated by enlightened, gen
erous reciprocaiions in all States and countries,
the result will be an animating and invgorating
advancement, if not glorious triumph, of the
DEMOCRACY OF SCIENCE"
In the progress of this great enterprise of
"SoIENcE, WEALTH, and MORALS, four facts
are worldly of special regard: Younger men,
bers Of schools and families are more hearty in
it than the older; the reputed worst scholars
are changed into the best; the more elementary
and far.reaching the principle, the more eager
the mind and hand to illustrate it--a key un-
locking a million of rooms is more eagerly
sought or than one opening a hundred; those
who give most receive most--a liberal hand
maketh rich