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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Ground Plan of the Exposition. 



There is not a single visitor who does not regret the shortness of 

 the existence of this great exposition ; who did not feel his interest in it 

 increasing daily, while in attendance; who would not welcome an 

 opportunity of returning to it for more instruction and inspiration; 

 who was not moved to wish that every living man and woman might 

 receive the benefits this exposition was intended to convey and to dis- 

 seminate. 



All expositions are schools of learning of the most practical sort. 

 International expositions are the universities in which the different 

 nations teach each other. The exhibits, carefully selected and arranged 

 in groups, represent the achievements of many years, the results of 

 many years of study and labor, in a predigested form and ready to 

 enter the understanding without requiring any effort on the part of 

 the observer, except that he be in a receptive mood. There was a time 

 when the attributes of usefulness on the part of the high arts and 

 sciences were regarded as detracting from their value ; when the beauty 

 of an object was thought to end where its usefulness began; when 

 sciences, we were told, had a right to exist for their own sake and 

 regardless of their usefulness to mankind. Human physiology itself, 

 during its juvenile development in recent years, had become so preco- 

 ciously independent as to barely recognize its ancient relationship to 

 mother Medicine. What a remarkable change of front in this general 

 attitude has been made in a few years, was perhaps never better shown 

 nor more efficiently demonstrated than in the " Internationale Hygiene 

 Exposition, Dresden, 1911," where one great, intelligent, strong mind 

 succeeded in gently pressing the fruits of every known art, science and 

 industry into the service of humanity. Disciplined, orderly cooperation 

 toward one common and useful end and purpose was never and nowhere 

 shown to better advantage than in the work of organizing, creating and 



