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THE WORLD’S EAXRS 
III. 
The country, which is going to have an 
international exhibition, always loudly 
proclaims, that it is to be a festival of 
peace, an occasion of friendly unison for 
the nations of the world in a common 
enterprise, that is to benefit them all. Ex- 
perience has proved, that no country can 
refuse its participation without doing in- 
jury to its own economical interests. 
Now it bas become an evident truth in 
our day, that liberty is the sine qua non 
condition of all progress in.the domain of 
that Science, which we call political or 
social economy. The innate power of the 
economical interests is such, that it has 
compelled all governments to unite in 
negotiatious, in order to remove the re- 
strictions on their freedom of action. It 
has at length come to be understood, that 
the means of communication, which are 
in the Service of the economical interests