The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-26
TIE LIBERAL CLUB.

The Proposed National Industrial Exhibition.
The Liberal Club composition OF materialistic
and positivist philosophers, disputative scientists
practical men, working with the humanitarlans
zeal for the elevation OF mankind from that "soagh
OF despond'' into which they have seen IL fall In
their minds, and those uniyersologists, who are
mere literary men, and therefore incapable OF un.
derstanding the questions of practical science, met
last evening at Pimpton Hall. The titles that have
been applied to the members OF the organization
must not be supposed to be the weak invention OF
the enemy in the person OF the reporter bur should
be taken real substances OF the utterances OF
the members OF the club when speaking each OF the
other during the debate.
Mr.. d. T. Gardner, the secretary CT the club, and
or the practical men, reared, he said, In the
schools or science ana commerce, and NOT In that
OF literature. ana consequent acknowledgment,
read paper on "lndustrial Exhibitions and New
York as q Permanent Centre" He explained the
object or industrial exhibitions to be to spread be-
fore the people the Industry of many nations, and
from general competition TO CLEAN such mforma-
lion as may tend to improve competitors and OBJ
servers, and said they the result OF times
are born Of our civilization and its true index
Expestions are great moral teachers; they teach
mankind the truth that no people are, per Sc, the
greatest IN every industry and that only by general
cooperation OF all for the general good can that
good be reached. Machiave In 1913. said there
are three degrees OF capacity among mcD-That one
understands things by natural powers another
when they are explained TO him and third not at
ALL Believing this tripartite division 10 be in the
main correct, Mr.. Gardner urged the endeavor
should be maze TO reduce the numbers Of the third
class and thereby elevate man in the social scale. lf
they are not allowed to see and know what is going
in the world about them, then the mass will sink
lower and lower IN the scale OF civilization Political
economists urge object teaching as the true method
OF ilnparting lasting ideas to the young This idea,
which mas been growing from the time OF restalozzi,
teaches that he whole domain Of domestic economy
must be laid bare to the system OF object teaching
on a comprehensive scale. This Is the successful
keynote 10 o well ordered expoSitlon-a vasL school
for object teaching He then, after referring the
exp0silons that have been neld throughout the
world, read prospectus OF the Palace OF Industry,
which Is TO make New York the ettTep0t of the
worlds products, to do away with third parties In
the sale OF goods between the manufacturer and
and TO be the national school for OBJECT teach
ing. Mr. Gardeners peroratlon guestioRed-when the
hum OF machinery, the beauty Of produced fabrics
and the inventive genius or mankind shall combine
to teach the lesson OF material art can any one
doubt that such lesson perpetuay taught Will fail
to exert an influence for good upon mankind
When nature and art shall combine to please the In
stinct and elevate the people. then will vice and
ignorance commence TO decline and sur people to
Increase, slowly perhaps, but surely, in virtue
Mr.. Gardner having concluded, discussion
took place, during which Mr.. Cassius NJ. Clay, Mr..
Moran and Professor j. K. H. W. wilcox stated their
views,