The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851

The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851

THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF THE NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AT ROCHESTER. WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE. AMERICA AS ABUSED BY A GERMAN. REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE MR. COOPER.HIS LAST DAYS. THE LONDON TIMES ON AMERICAN INTERCOMMUNICATION. THE LAST EARTHQUAKE IN EUROPE. MR. JEFFERSON ON THE STUDY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE. THE OBELISKS OF EGYPT. DR. LATHAM ON THE MOSKITO KINGDOM. GOLD-QUARTZ AND SOCIETY. INEDITED LETTER OF DR. FRANKLIN. A BALLAD OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. REMARKABLE PROPHECY. GREENWOOD. AN AUGUST REVERIE. HEROINES OF HISTORYLAURA. THE KING AND OUTLAW. SAINT ESCARPACIO'S BONES. DIRGE FOR AN INFANT. THE CHIMES. A STORY WITHOUT A NAME. TWO SONNETS. THE COUNT MONTE-LEONE: OR, THE SPY IN SOCIETY. A GHOST STORY OF NORMANDY. CREBILLON, THE FRENCH SCHYLUS. HABITS OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. THE OLD MAN'S DEATH. MY NOVEL. FRAGMENTS FROM A VOLUME OF POEMS. AUTHORS AND BOOKS. THE FINE ARTS. NOCTES AMIC. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE MONTH. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. RECENT DEATHS. LADIES' AUTUMN FASHIONS. This is an age of Exhibitions. From the humble collection of cattle and counter-panes, swine and "garden sauce," at the central village of some secluded County, up to the stupendous "World's Fair" at London, wherein all nations and all arts are represented, "Industrial Expositions," as the French more accurately term them, are the order of the day. And this is wellnay, it is inspiring. It proves the growth and diffusion of a wider and deeper consciousness of the importance and dignity of Labor as an element of national strength and social progress. That corn and cloth are essential to the comfortable subsistence of the human family, and of every portion of it, was always plain enough; but the truth is much broader than that. Not food alone, but knowledge, virtue, power, depend upon the subtle skill of the artificer's fingers, the sturdy might of the husbandman's arm. Let these fail, through the blighting influence of despotism, licentiousness, superstition, or slavery, and the national greatness is cankered at the root, and its preservation overtasks the ability of Phocion, of Hannibal, of Cato. A nation flourishes or withers with the development and vigor of its Industry. It may prosper and be strong without statesmen, warriors, or jurists; it fades and falls with the decline of its arts and its agriculture. Wisely, therefore, do rulers, nobles, field marshals and archbishops, unite in rendering the highest honors to eminence in the domain of Industry, dimly perceiving that it is mightier and more enduring than their petty and fragile potencies. The empire of Napoleon, though so lately at its zenith, has utterly passed away, while that of Fulton is still in its youth. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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