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AMERICAN P RE FACE. 
her own with the country at large. Iler manufactures will con- 
tinue rapidly to increase, and with thern her population and 
wealth. In general character her manufactures will undergo a 
decided change: they will embody more and more of skill and 
taste, and so will find a wider and wider market. Already, even 
in point of taste, some of the manufactures of Massachusetts are 
sufficiently good to compete successfully with similar foreign 
products in foreign markets. The recent steps taken by the Com 
monwealth to promote populär art-education will, beyond doubt, 
prove exceedingly wise in an economical view. It only remains 
to push vigorously ahead in the same direction. 1 
If we turn to the State of New York, we find the same tendency 
in the distribution of the population among different employments 
as in Massachusetts. Tliis appears by the following figures from 
the census of 1870 : — 
Total population 4,382,759 
Engaged in all occupations 1,491,018 
Engaged in agrieulture 374,323 
Engaged in Professional and personal Services . . . 405,339 
Engaged in trade and transportation 234,581 
Engaged in manufacturing, niechanical, and mining industries 476,775 
It will be seen that agriculture takes only one-quarter of the 
employed population, while one-third is engaged in manufacturing, 
mechanical, and mining industries. Add to the latter those 
engaged in trade and transportation, also in Professional and 
personal Service, and you have five-sevenths of the employed pop 
ulation, the larger part of whom find employment, directly or 
indirectly, through manufactures. Here is a broad field for indus 
trial education. In accordance with the necessities of the case, 
1 “It must be remembered, that, if we want quick and valuable results, our 
ontlay and exertions must be in Proportion to our desires. To give a luke 
warm support to the movement, and tiien, ten years hence, grunible hecause 
wo have not effeeted as great changes as other countries in a like period of 
time have done, would be but a sorry way to bring about a beneficial result; 
though it is what is likely to happen, uuless a very strong interest is aroused 
in the public inind in behalf of the idea.” —From Special Report on “ Museums 
of Art and Indtistryby Louis J. Ilinton, one of the Massachusetts Commissioners 
to the Vienna Exposition.