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THE WORLD’S PAIRS 
sequently to take care of their own in- 
terests above everything eise. The only 
correct way is to adapt the commercial 
System, which gives every department a 
certain autonomy, to the reliable work of 
conscientious offieers of the Government. 
The Vienna Exhibition, coming so soon 
after the reunion of Germany, it was a 
natural and laudable desire in those who 
directed the participation of that country, 
to endeavour to make its department a 
faithful representation of the homogeneity 
and strength of the new Empire. It was 
their intention to show that the coronation 
of the Emperor William I. had put an end 
to the dissensions whieh made Germany 
weak, and that, in tuture, her national in- 
terests, whether they he of a political or 
an economical nature, are backed by the 
united strength of one of the most power- 
ful nations of the world. 
The Commission sought to attain this 
aim, hy not only carefully effacing every 
sign of the federal nature of the country, 
but also by giving the arrangement of 
their department and the outward ap- 
pearance of the annexes they had built 
at the Exhibition, the greatest uniformity 
possible. F'or this reason also, the show- 
cases and Stands were, with few excep- 
tions, all ordered irorn a single large con-