the mastery wliicb they one c conte?ted on the field of battle. The 

 great ladustrial Exhibition of 1851 was a monument and a proof 

 of the dignity of labor. Crusades, tournaments, military exhibi- 

 tions, have had their day ; labor now claims and receives the 

 homage of the world. But it is labor/trained to scientific perfee- 

 tion, and educated to perform its diflknlt and woiderful task 

 with consummate excellence. One result of the Exhibition was, 

 that the nation which most cultivated science and art in any par- 

 ticular branch of manufactures, was so far in the ascendant. 



The first step then, towards industrial indef>€ndence. is to en- 

 noble labor by educating it. 



He is a blind and inattentive observer who does not perceive 

 that in this age of the world, the competition of labor is, as Dr, 

 Playfair has lately declared it, " a competition of intellect. Frona 

 the earliest times, useful labor has been held most in esteem by 

 the most intellectual and cultivated nations. The name of th« 

 first artificer in brass and iron, was deemed worthy of being re- 

 corded in Holy Writ. The son of Jupiter is represented by the 

 Greek poets, toiling at the anvil, and forging the shield of Her- 

 cules. Among rude and untaught nations labor was divorced frcBi 

 intellect. But gradually knowledge and inventive genius tame 

 to be more and more mingled with its efforts ; and now that all 

 the powers, all the feculties of the human mind are devoted to 

 the supply of human wants, labor, to reach the highest excellence 

 in its productions, must be in some degree skilled in the scientifie 

 principles involved in the industrial arts. Hence it is, that tb« 

 governments of those nations of Europe which most excel in th« 

 preducts of human ingenuity, have adopted it as a principle of 

 state, that industry must be supported by a competition of int©]- 

 lect; while in many of them schools of labor and industrial uni- 

 versities abound, in which the sciences connected with manufa*- 

 tures are taught. 



The surplus fund of the great London Exhibition, amounting t® 

 up-^vards of Xl 50,000 sterling, has been devoted by Prince Albe^ri 

 and the Royal Commissioners, to the establishment of a great oen- 

 iral institution oi arts and manufactures. The institution \b to 

 contain laboratories and workshop*, a museum and library. Le©-- 



