[Anon.], ‘The Great Exhibition’, Family Economist (1851)

This chapter addresses the ’Moral, Physical, and Domestic Improvement of the Industrious Classes ’. It is to help the industrious classes to improve their condition, and suggest means to increase their domestic comforts’. Great numbers have seen the sight, and have returned home again with something to talk about for many a year to come. It was the first visit that the greater part of them had ever paid to London, and to have seen the Exhibition as well is a privilege which, according to the use made of it, will prove a temporary gratification, or a lasting benefit. The Exhibition may be as a seed-field to all who contemplate it in earnest, furnishing stores of knowledge to the diligent mind, and to the diligent hand supplies for future harvests. In many of the differences we may find that we have yet much to learn, and so we may go on with persevering emulation to farther improvements and higher excellence.