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fitting medium, then, for the launching of a new 

 thought-form than a great international exposition! 

 There spirit is seen in its historical development, and 

 men by the very pursuit of their own private ends 

 come to a knowledge of things universal. 



Human interest having in these later days become 

 largely centred on value- judgments and estimates of 

 worth, an exposition affords perhaps the most gen- 

 eral application of the principle of relativity to be 

 found, bringing it home to the collective mind in an 

 intimately human way as nothing else could. Where 

 nation is vying with nation and individual with in- 

 dividual in all of the arts and crafts of human indus- 

 try, absolute standards must needs vanish, and with 

 their going we may be able to set up such a distribu- 

 tion of values as will give new direction to our eff orts. 

 However that may be, the industrial competition to 

 which, in the last analysis, the Exposition owes its 

 inception, is pushing many aside from the beaten 

 highways into hitherto unexplored regions of thought 

 and endeavour, and who is to say that we may not in 

 consequence find a direction quite at right angles to 

 all of our wonted ways of thinking? What visitor 

 to the Jewelled City, that synthesis of many minds, 

 was not lifted for the moment, at least, out of the 

 realm of things temporal to the vision of new truth 

 and beauty ! 



The Panama-Pacific International Exposition is 

 best seen in its fourth-dimensional aspect when ap- 



