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taking the form of some simple contrivance, is able to give 
birth to new industries and revolutionize society. 
The position and the value of this department were fitly 
illustrated in the Great Exposition. If one could conceive of 
some Titanic power, placed underneath the central portion of 
the Palace, and capable of gradually lifting it until the whole 
grand collection in the several groups had assumed the form 
of a cone, he would then have a beautiful presentation to the 
eye of the relations of the several departments of industry to 
each other and to the progress of mankind. First Agriculture 
upon the plain and encompassing this mountain of glory, with 
its simple foods, the primary necessities for the animal life of 
man, and the raw materials out of which his genius and 
growing intelligence were to form the countless articles of a 
higher and more refined existence ; then that grand circle of 
machinery, as comprehensive in the scope of its uses as the 
material of the world and the needs of man ; and so upward 
to the apex, where Art sat enthroned among the glories of her 
genius. 
No portion of the Palace of Exposition so fascinated and 
held me as this grand annular “nave.” The “galleries,’^ 
stored with beautiful instruments and utensils, delicate tissues, 
infinite in variety and pattern, and with the products of artistic 
genius, were attractive and wonderful. But they were not, and 
could not, be so daguerreotyped upon the memory as that more 
marvelous gallery of nearly a mile in circuit, within whose 
crystal walls and underneath whose vaulted roof were embraced 
ten thousands curious machines, each moving and fulfilling 
its office as if it were possessed of intelligence, here and there 
overshadowed by majestic engines of incredible proportions 
and more than Cyclopean power, and awed as it were into 
reverence and harmony of music by the" grand anthems of 
heavenward-reaching cathedral organs that united their sweet 
and solemn voices with the indiscribable hum and whirr and 
rattle and roar of that most remarkable demonstration ofman^s 
inventive genius the world ever saw. 
No previous exhibition has so shown the wonderful extent of 
