 | Ullrich Kockel - 1994 - 228 pagina’s
...everybody; thought is communicated with the rapidity and even by the power of lightning. . . The Exhibition is to give us a true test and a living picture of...the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task. The Consort's speech is the primal statement of our dilemma. On the one hand the hegemonic power of... | |
 | Lori Anne Loeb - 1994 - 237 pagina’s
...industrial accomplishment. The Great Exhibition had achieved its goal: "to present a true test and living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived . . . and a new starting point, from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions."10... | |
 | Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 pagina’s
...of the division of labour' was the 'moving power of civilization,' and that the Great Exhibition was a 'living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived'?8 However, a great stumbling block still had to be overcome, one that had damped down belief... | |
 | Bruce Rich - 1994 - 396 pagina’s
...to all branches of science, industry and art. . . . Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a living picture of the point of development at which...nations will be able to direct their further exertions. [Emphasis is in text.]94 Before, human evolution and history had consisted of many parallel, differing... | |
 | Seán McConville - 1995 - 838 pagina’s
...of Health in 1 848. 18 The Prince Consort hoped that the Exhibition would "present a true test and living picture of the point of development at which...starting-point, from which all nations will be able 10 direct their further exertions" (Royal Commissioners for the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry... | |
 | Elsbeth Heaman - 1999 - 446 pagina’s
...speech owed much to one given by Prince Albert earlier that year which heralded the coming gathering as 'a true test and a living picture of the point of...mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.'17 This view... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pagina’s
...symmetry, and gives to our productions forms in accordance to them. Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1 8 ji is to give us a true test and a living picture of...nations will be able to direct their further exertions. I confidently hope that the first impression which the view of this vast collection will produce upon... | |
 | Jeffrey A. Auerbach - 1999 - 300 pagina’s
...the stimulus of competition and capital. Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.23 He concluded... | |
 | Nicholas Thistlethwaite - 1999 - 616 pagina’s
...her competitors to bring their wares to Joseph Paxton's Palace of Industry in Hyde Park, 'to present a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived . . . and [to provide] a new starting point, from which all nations will be able to direct their future... | |
 | Colin Cunningham, Emma Barker - 1999 - 280 pagina’s
...speech by him in support of the project. 'The Exhibition of 1851 would, he said, afford a true test of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations would be able to direct their further exertions. (The Illustrated... | |
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Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct their... 
