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The exposition of 1851 : $b or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of EnglandBabbage, Charles

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The exposition of 1851 : $b or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England

Name: The exposition of 1851 : $b or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England
Author: Babbage, Charles

Babbage, Charles

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)

THE EXPOSITION
                                   OF
                                  1851.

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                                 LONDON:
                  R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

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                             THE EXPOSITION
                                   OF
                                  1851;

                                   OR,

                         VIEWS OF THE INDUSTRY,
                    THE SCIENCE, AND THE GOVERNMENT,
                               OF ENGLAND.

                                   BY
                          CHARLES BABBAGE, ESQ.
 CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF MORAL SCIENCES OF THE INSTITUTE
                               OF FRANCE.




                     SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

                                 LONDON:
                     JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
                                  1851.




                                 PREFACE

                          TO THE FIRST EDITION.

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England has invited the civilized world to meet in its great commercial
centre; asking it, in friendly rivalry, to display for the common
advantage of all, those objects which each country derives from the
gifts of nature, and on which it confers additional utility by processes
of industrial art.

This invitation, universally accepted, will bring from every quarter a
multitude of people greater than has yet assembled in any western city:
these welcome visitors will enjoy more time and opportunity for
observation than has ever been afforded on any previous occasion. The
statesman and the philosopher, the manufacturer and the merchant, and
all enlightened observers of human nature, may avail themselves of the
opportunity afforded by their visit to this Diorama of the Peaceful
Arts, for taking a more correct view of the industry, the science, the
institutions, and the government of this country. One object of these
pages is, to suggest to such inquirers the agency of those deeper-seated
and less obvious causes which can be detected only by lengthened
observation, and to supply them with a key to explain many of the
otherwise incomprehensible characteristics of England.

Who, for instance, could have conceived that England, after making
unexampled efforts for the adoption of “_Free Trade_,” should be the
first nation to prohibit[1] its very basis, “_competition_,” at the
world’s great bazaar?

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