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history is the history of the development of his mind. The pro- 
gress of rationality is the progress of the most perfect of the ani- 
mal creation, but it is not the only progress. The development of 
the sentiments has also advanced with the opportunity of exercis- 
ing them. From our social relations, our affections have sprung ; 
from the necessity of law imposed for mutual protection, our moral 
ideas have been derived. In these two fields, man appears asa 
higher being, apparently preparing for a still higher destiny. 
Further than this glimpse, I will not refer to the future. We have 
much to do inthe present. Sz guaeris [laborem] amocnum circum- 
Spice. 
As representing purely intellectual objects, there are three 
departments represented within the walls of this exposition. 
Firstly, the department of industrial training, to develop and 
stimulate mechanical knowledge and _ skill. 
Secondly, the department of schools and libraries, in which 
is exhibited the apparatus used in the training of the mind while 
most plastic, in all that is necessary for its adult life. 
And finally, the department of the fine arts, which are used to 
develop and keep alive the affections and sentiments, and remind 
us ever of the beautiful, the good and the true. 
Of necessity, we first look at these subjects with the eye of phy- 
sical utility. I hope that I have made it evident that the contem- 
plation of man by himself has of all subjects the highest utility. 
In considering the laws of our being and the conditions which gave 
rise to our existence, let us return to the starting point of human 
progress, and endeavor to carry our view into that past where 
man’s agency was unknown, and where life struggled toward the 
creation and birth of its latest offspring, mind. Here we have the 
history of the battles of life with its environment, with hunger and 
' thirst, with flood and earthquake, ever defeated, yet ever rising 
indestructible. It has been taught by disaster, learning new de- 
fences and safeguards. To-day, after these zons of change, life is 
everywhere. The soil is full of it, the waters teem with it, the air is 
clouded with it. Wherever it can exist, there life comes. We eat 
it, we drink it; it abounds in the centres of human population, as 
in the wastes of the ocean and of the prairie. There are five hundred 
thousand species of animals and as many of plants, and there are 
few of these that are not represented by millions of individuals. If 
