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VIII. — Intellectual occupation of man. — In the eightli section are to 

 be shown objects ilhistrating the intellectual and moral condition of 

 man : superstitions, crime and error, benevolent enterprises and reforma- 

 tory institutions, religious organizations and systems, museums, sports, 

 the pictorial and plastic arts, music and musical instruments, the drama, 

 folk-lore, literature, science, philosophy, education and educational insti- 

 tutions, and the most perfect results of human achievement in every 

 direction of activity. 



Tossihilities of expanding the above plan. — The above statement of 

 the plan of classifieation, on account of its brevity, fails to give a very 

 definite idea of the comprehensiveness of the scheme. In each division 

 of the subject, plans have been devised for showing not only the 

 present condition of the achievement, but the steps by which man has 

 arrived at the present condition in every direction in which human 

 activity has been exerted — a graphic history of the development of 

 human culture and civilization. 



E g., Expansion of culture of animals. — As an illustration of the 

 manner in which each section of this classification may be expanded, 

 reference may be made to two or three divisions. Under the head of 

 culture of domestic animals, for instance, would be shown the methods 

 emi)loyed in the culture of sponges, of oysters, of leeches, of bees, of the 

 cochineal insect, of silkworms, of maggots for bird food, of crawfish, crabs 

 and lobsters; of fish, of poultry, of singing and ornamental birds, of 

 fleece-bearing animals, of meat and milk producing animals, of beasts of 

 burden, hunting animals, of pets, and the subjects of aquaria, menag- 

 eries, and zoological gardens. In connection with these would be ex- 

 hibited a collection of all the animals which have been domesticated by 

 man in any part of the world, some eighty or ninety species altogether, 

 and in the case of the more prominent species — for instance, the dog — 

 characteristic illustrations of each breed or race. 



E. g., Expansion of transportation. — In the division of transportation 

 would be shown all that related to modes of movement, roads, tramways, 

 canals, railroads, lines of ocean and river navigation, with the acces- 

 sories of tunnels, bridges, toll-gates, sign-posts, buoys, light-houses, &c., 

 and vehicles of transportation, from the skate, stilt, snow-shoe, veloci- 

 l)cde, and sledge, to the railroad-car, the steamer, and the balloon. 



E. </., Expansion of graphic arts. — Under the head of the graphic 

 arts would be shown, in addition to illustrations of all the various 

 methods of engraving upon stone, wood, and metal, of painting and 

 photography, a collection illustratjng the art of writing and printing 

 from its inception — from the stilus and papyrus — tlirough the pen and 

 pencil to the type-writer, electric pen, the hektograph, and tlie whole 

 subject of book-making, printing with engraved types and blocks, with 

 movable types, wood-cuts, metal plates, and lithographic stone, the 

 details of book-making, i>roof-reading, and book-sizes of books, «S;c. 



E. g., Expansion of ceremonies. — Under the head of ceremonies, the 



