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The Crystal Palace And The Arts
commercial speculation of theirs . Our manufacturers and inventors noAV require that publicity for their works Avhich once they feared . The education of the large body of the people must be made a national concern , and have every facility Avhich can be afforded . In knowledge of art , and especially of architecture , much has to be learned . Great part of the
continent of Em-ope ; America , and ei ^ en Scotland within our reach , have all been long alive to the national importance of matters in education , which in England we still neglect . There is much lost ground to be recovered . Therefore , since the Avork has to be done , we are glad that , in one respect , means will be at our doors for doing that Avork in the best waynamelb
, y , y instruction through the eye . But , more than this , the cities of our empire must no longer groAV up at hap-hazard , and with all noxious elements , such as we hear of in Melbourne , and which are merely less obvious at home . As cities , positively they should possess advantages , —not become the foci of disease , of ignorance , and of degrading and
brutalizing vice . Recreation for the people is one of the points which must no longer be disregarded , ancl that must be of an elevating kind . The haughty indifference of classes one to another must be broken doAvn . In truth , all , whether rich or poor , independent of labour or hard-handed , have much to learn — one from another .
The Crystal Palace Company are engaged m a great experiment , one Avhich if it fail Avill be disastrous to them . We have every hope that the precedents of the attendance at the Great Exhibition , though apparently a peculiar case , have not been reasoned from unfairly ; and so long as the directors are animated by their present spirit , they will have the best wishes , not only of ourselves , but , Ave may ansAver for it , of the entire body of Freemasons .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Crystal Palace And The Arts
commercial speculation of theirs . Our manufacturers and inventors noAV require that publicity for their works Avhich once they feared . The education of the large body of the people must be made a national concern , and have every facility Avhich can be afforded . In knowledge of art , and especially of architecture , much has to be learned . Great part of the
continent of Em-ope ; America , and ei ^ en Scotland within our reach , have all been long alive to the national importance of matters in education , which in England we still neglect . There is much lost ground to be recovered . Therefore , since the Avork has to be done , we are glad that , in one respect , means will be at our doors for doing that Avork in the best waynamelb
, y , y instruction through the eye . But , more than this , the cities of our empire must no longer groAV up at hap-hazard , and with all noxious elements , such as we hear of in Melbourne , and which are merely less obvious at home . As cities , positively they should possess advantages , —not become the foci of disease , of ignorance , and of degrading and
brutalizing vice . Recreation for the people is one of the points which must no longer be disregarded , ancl that must be of an elevating kind . The haughty indifference of classes one to another must be broken doAvn . In truth , all , whether rich or poor , independent of labour or hard-handed , have much to learn — one from another .
The Crystal Palace Company are engaged m a great experiment , one Avhich if it fail Avill be disastrous to them . We have every hope that the precedents of the attendance at the Great Exhibition , though apparently a peculiar case , have not been reasoned from unfairly ; and so long as the directors are animated by their present spirit , they will have the best wishes , not only of ourselves , but , Ave may ansAver for it , of the entire body of Freemasons .