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TUE  WORLD’S  FAIRS

that  exhibition  offers  arguments  in  Support ­
  of  the  general  views,  we  wish  to  advance.

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  universal ­
  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  distribution
  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  importance
  of  the  different  countries.  The  German ­
  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