ABSTRACT
We have confessed likewise that … this is the only country that has neither supplied … scientific or artistic instruction to its industrial population; nor, for men of science and art, a centre of action, and of exchange of the result of their labours … Yet this country, as the centre of commerce and industry of the world, would seem to require, more than any other, to have these wants supplied; and the Great Exhibition has, in its results, convinced us that unless they be speedily procured, this country will run serious risk of losing that pre-eminent position which now makes its strength and its boast.
