Excerpt from Congress of Arts and Science, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904, Vol. 1 of 8 For the demonstration of the value of these products men thor oughly skilled in their development and use are sent by the various exhibitors. The exposition by the logic of its creation thus gathers to itself the expert representatives of every art and industry. For at least two months in the exposition period there are present the members of the international jury of awards, selected specially by the different governments for their thorough knowledge, theoretical and practical, Of the departments to which they are assigned, and selected further for their ability to impress upon others the correct ness Of their Views. The renown of a universal exposition brings, as visitors, students and investigators bent upon the solution of prob lems and anxious to know the latest contributions to the facts and the theories which underlie every phase of the world's development. The material therefore is ready at hand with which to construct the framework of a conference of parts, or a congress of the whole of any subject. It was a natural and logical step to accompany the study Of the exhibits with a debate on their excellence, an analysis Of their growth, and an argument for their future. Hence the con gress. The exposition and the congress are correlative terms. The former concentres the Visible products of the brain and hand of man; the congress is the literary embodiment of its activities. Yet it was not till the Paris Exposition of 1889 that the idea Of a series of congresses, international in membership and universal in scope, was fully developed. The three preceding expositions, Paris, 1878, Philadelphia, 1876, and Vienna, 1873, had held under their auspices many conferences and congresses, and indeed the germ of the congress idea may be said to have been the establishment of the International Scientific Commission in connection with the Paris Exposition of 1867; but all of these meetings were unrelated and sometimes almost accidental in their organization, although many were of great scientific interest and value. 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.