The life and works of Sir Charles BarryBarry, Alfred
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The life and works of Sir Charles Barry
Barry, Alfred
Architects -- Great Britain -- Biography; Barry, Charles, 1795-1860
I would propose that the entire collection at this institution should be
transferred to the proposed College of Science at Kensington, and that
it should thereupon be set apart and fitted up as a National Polytechnic
Institution, for amusing and instructive demonstrations and lectures in
science, with a library and schools for engineering drawing, for the use
principally of the industrial and working classes of an evening, which,
judging from past experience in the institution itself, and the success
that attends other private institutions of a similar nature, could not,
I think, fail to become extremely popular and useful.
FIFTHLY AND LASTLY.
As regards the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in the
Adelphi.
This old-established Institution, being denuded, as I have
proposed, of its paintings and its Trade Museum, Library, &c.,
might be rendered useful as a place for meeting and for lectures,
principally of an evening, on all subjects connected with the
statistics of trade and commerce, &c., and a rendezvous for all,
who seek information connected therewith.
Having now enumerated the capabilities and advantages that our
existing institutions afford, conjointly with the newly acquired
site at Kensington, for the important objects to which I have
adverted, I have only to add that I have been induced to associate
Art, Literature, and Learning in one institution as being branches
of knowledge of a kindred nature illustrative of each other, and
likely to work well together, and to separate from them Science,
which has less affinity with those branches of knowledge, except in
so far as it may be applied to the useful arts and manufactures of
the country, for which the means and accommodation are proposed to
be provided at Kensington.
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