on the Great Exhibition of 1851. 369 
Providence to man, thus bringing out of the earth, in every 
varying clime, endless forms of vegetable life, of which so many, 
and so many more than we yet can tell, are adapted to sustain, 
to cheer, to benefit, to delight man, in ways ever kind, ever 
large, ever new, and of which the novelty itself is a new source 
of delighted contemplation. 
I might go on to make other reflections upon the peculiar 
characters of the various classes of the Great Exhibition, but the 
time does not allow me, nor is it needful, since all that I aspired 
to do was to offer to you specimens of such reflections. Several 
of the classes will, no doubt, suggest appropriate reflections to 
those who have to deliver lectures to you on special subjects. In 
the meantime, though F must now hasten to a conclusion, I can- 
not but perceive how imperfectly I have discharged even the 
some such effect as this would, we may suppose, be produced 
upon the students of the useful and the beautiful arts by their 
resort to any university incommon. To any university, I have 
said; but to what a university have they been resorting during the 
past term? Toa university of which the colleges are all the great 
workshops and workyards, the schools and societies of arts, man- 
ufactures, and commerce, of mining and building, of inventing and 
executing in every land—colleges in which great chemists, great 
machines, great naturalists, great inventors, are already working, 
in a professional manner, to aid and develop all that capital, 
skill, and enterprise can do, Coming from such colleges to th 
central university, may we not well look upon it as a great epoch 
in the life of the material arts, that they have thus begun their 
university. career—that they have had the advantage of suc 
academical arrangements as there have been found, and still 
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