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is, or, if it chooses, may be well cared for in the way of libraries. But a collection of books on applied science in French, German, and English, including the records of the patent offices or similar institutions of the civilized countries of the world, geographical, geological, and mining maps and sections, illustrated works on architecture, ship-building and machinery, and the like, would greatly add to the utility of an Industrial Museum, if arranged in its library, so as to be accessible for reference and consultation by practical men. Such a library, it cannot be doubted, would receive many donations, and in all likelihood would prove the least costly, though not the least useful complement of the Museum.
Such, then, is the fourfold idea embodied in the Galleries, Laboratory, Library, and Lecture-room, which together constitute an Industrial Museum. As the counterpart of this, the merchant companies of the world have a fourfold duty to discharge:-
1. To gather workable materials from the ends of the earth.
2. To send forth finished products, derived from those, to the four quarters of the heavens.
3. To employ the most perfect mechanical and chemical appliances which can change the one into the other, and facilitate their transmission throughout the world.
4. To encourage new arts and hope for still newer ones.
In so far, then, as an Industrial Museum, fully realising the great idea which underlies it, can assist those ends, it claims your interest, protection, and encouragement.
Before I close, let me indulge in two brief moralisings.
What are the ends of commercial enterprise? I will name in reply but two:- 1. The making of money, 2. The civilizing of the world.
Firstly, I suppose you will not blame me for saying that the immediate end is the making of money, or for adding, that this money-making seems to me one of the most honest, innocent, and pleasant of occupations. I am not fortified in this original opinion by remembrance of any passage in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which indeed I never read.
I am thinking of a passage in one of the writings of the poet Southey, who, like myself, never lost the pleasure of money-making by having a surfeit of it. To "owe no man anything," and that it is to be 'worse than an infidel' not to provide for his own
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is, or, if it chooses, may be well cared for in the way of libraries. But a collection of books on applied science in French, German, and English, including the records of the patent offices or similar institu- tions of the civilized countries of the world, geogra phical, geological, and mining maps and sections, illustrated works on architecture, ship-building and machinery, and the like, would greatly add to the utility of an Industrial Museum, if arranged in its library, so as to be accessible for reference and con- sultation by practical men. Such a library, it can- not be doubted, would receive many donations, and in all likelihood would prove the least costly, though not the least useful complement of the Museum.
Such, then, is the fourfold idea embodied in the Galleries, Laboratory, Library, and Lecture-room, which together constitute an Industrial Museum. As the counterpart of this, the merchant companies of the world have a fourfold duty to discharge:-
1. To gather workable materials from the ends of
the earth.
2. To send forth finished products, derived from those, to the four quarters of the heavens.
3. To employ the most perfect mechanical and chemical appliances which can change the one
AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.
into the other, and facilitate their transmission throughout the world
4. To encourage new arts and hope for still newer
ones,
In so far, then, as an Industrial Museum, fully realising the great idea which underlies it, can assist those ends, it claims your interest, protection, and encouragement.
Before I close, let me indulge in two brief moralisings.
What are the ends of commercial enterprise? I will name in reply but two:-1. The making of money, 2 The civilizing of the world.
Firstly, I suppose you will not blame me for saying that the immediate end is the making of money, or for adding, that this money-making seems to me one of the most honest, innocent, and pleasant of oeeu- pations. I am not fortified in this original opinion by remembrance of any passage in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which indeed I never read.
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am thinking of a passage in one of the writings of the poet Southey, who, like myself, never lost the pleasure of money-making by having a surfeit of it. To "owe no man anything," and that it is to be 'worse than an infidel" not to provide for his own
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