Excerpt from The Journal of the Society of Arts, and of the Institutions in Union, Vol. 1: From November 26, 1852, to November 11, 1853 Your_ last question requires an opinion as to the great design the Society have in view, and the obstacles it will be likely to encounter. It seems to me there can be but one opinion as to the tendency of so liberal a scheme carried cut in the spirit in which it has been conceived. The human family is an imit, and. No political divisions ought to be permitted to -rob it of the advantages which practical unity must bestow. All ingenuity employed in discovering what is already known, all time wasted in experiments which have already been' tried, is so much sub tracted from the sum of human progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.