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TUE WORLD’S FAIRS 
that exhibition offers arguments in Sup 
port of the general views, we wish to ad- 
vance. 
The Vienna exhibition was organised 
hy Baron Sehwartz-Senborn, a man of 
great power of imagination, whose niiud 
bad fully grasped the idea of a truiy uni 
versal exhibition, that would embrace 
every field, on which human intellect has 
beeil at work. Had bis plan beeil entircly 
successful both in its material and in its 
ideal manifestation, it would have been a 
perfect picture of all human Science. 
As it was, Baron Schwartz found great 
difficulty in executing his plans. As 
Director-General he honesily tried to place 
himselfabove thestandpointof nationality, 
and direct the participation of all nations 
with the same impartiality. Admitting, 
that he sucaeeded in doing so, his distri- 
bution of the departments or shares in the 
exhibiting ground to the different nations 
remained after all a one-sided decision, 
based upon the personal coneeption, which 
he had forined of the economical impor- 
tance of the different countries. The Ger 
man Empire for one, did not accept his 
judgment of its economical position in the 
world. 
Thence sprang endless negotiations, 
which kept the exhibitors in uncertainty