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THE WORLD’S FAIRS 
We have in thia an example of the appa- 
rent antagonism of interests, from which, 
however, finally reaults that harmony of 
intereais, the existenoe of which political 
econoniists find so ditficult to prove to 
the world. 
It is evident, that a thorough and 
general comparison of the producta of all 
nations and an infallible judg^ment of 
their respective merits by an international 
jury would require a previous common 
agreement, which the rivality of national 
interests renders almost impossible for an 
undertaking of such importance, as a Uni 
versal Exhibition. In the case of Special 
Exhibitions this agreement appears more 
easily attainable. There are so many dif 
ferent branches of manufactures, that it 
might be justpossible to satisfy all parties 
by determining the order, in which inter 
national exhibitions of them, should be 
held, at least for the different central 
countries of Europe. 
It now remains for ns to examine the 
inner Organization of Universal-Exhibi- 
tions. We do so by selecting, as an example, 
the exhibition of Vienna in 1873, for the 
foreign participation was more general 
there, than at the later exhibitions, and 
the policy of the German Commission to