352 Drv Whewell’s Inaugural Lecture 
Agr. XXXU.—Inaugural Lecture, the General Bearing of the 
Great Evhibition on the Progress of Art and Science; by 
— Wirsam Wuewett, D.D., F.R.S., Master of 'Trinity.* 
_ Ir seems to me as if I were one of the persons who have the 
least right of any to address an audience like this on the subject 
of the Great Exhibition of the Art and Industry of All Nations, 
of which the doors have so lately closed; inasmuch as I have 
ad no connection with that great event, nor relation to it, except 
that of a mere spectator—one of the many millions there. The 
eminent and zealons men in whose wide views it originated, by 
whose indomitable energy and perseverance the great thought of 
such a spectacle was embodied in a visible, material shape ; those 
who, from our own countries or from foreign lands, supplied it 
with the treasures and wonders of art; those who, with scruti- 
izing eye and judicial mind, compared those treasures and those 
. Wonders, and stamped their approval on the worthiest ; those 
present occasion, not have the difficnlty of the task shown in 
this manner. Nor, indeed, is it my office, in airy sense, to spea 
an epilogue at all. Perhaps such remarks as I have to make may 
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* From the Edinb. Phil. Jour, January, 1852, p. 1. 
