SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MUNN 5. CO Editors and Proprietors Published Weekly at NEW YORK SATURDAY AUGUST 6 1904. THE EXPOSITION AS AN EDUCATIONAL FORCE. A great modern World's Exposition like that of St. Louis is intended first and last as a condensed ex hibit in concrete form of the accumulated knowledge and practical achievements of the civilized world. The endeavor is made to gather this material together in sach orderly arrangement and within such practicable limits of space that the individual may turn to any of it and secure the information which he is seeking with as much certainty as when he takes down an encyclopedia from his library shelves. T attempt the collection and arrangement of such an encyclopedia is a stupendous task hi itself and the study of the St. Louis Fair that never considering nal success as this. We have already spoken in terms ol praise of the splendid architectural achievements ing with its educational aspects acknowledgment is due of the excellent manner in which the Director of fication gained in other great exhibitions of this character. bition palaces what time they are not taking in the sights and sounds of that great highway of amuse ment the 'Pike' it would seem at first sight that more careful study of the multitudes and after taking note of the general run of comment and conversation primarily to be instructed. The most positive proof of paratus and phenomena that are given in several dif tricate exhibits those that require intelligent thought seers. This is as it should be; and it may surely be taken as evidence that the main object for which the Fair has been conceived and carried out namely that of acting as a powerful educational force is being abundantly fulfilled. Undoubtedly these great expositions exercise upon the average citizen a broadening influence which in a certain degree gives him a touch of that cosmopolitan breadth of view which is commonly supposed to come only by actual travel. This would not be possible were th
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