An Address Delivered by Wm; W. Morrow
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Excerpt from An Address Delivered by Wm; W. Morrow: At the Grand Opera House, on the Occasion of the Opening of the Sixteenth Industrial Exhibition, Held Under the Auspices of the Mechanics´ Institute of San Francisco, August 2d, 1881 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: A distinguished English visitor, after six weeks of travel in the United States, recently arrived in San Francisco. He was, of course, duly welcomed, and asked the usual question as to his opinion of the country and its institutions. His reply was a candid confession that he did not feel competent to pass judgment on the affairs of a country based upon observations made from the window of a railroad car. The embarrassment of our English friend can be fully appreciated by any one who will attempt to gather and arrange statistics concerning our present progress in the mechanical arts and mechanical and agricultural productions. We are speeding along so rapidly through depressions and over altitudes, that broad fields of facts, on either side of us, drift away before we can note their character or determine even their location. The careful and conscientious student desiring to determine accurately the value of these vast industrial fields, must stop and proceed patiently and systematically to investigate details, before he can render a judgment that shall comprehend all the elements that go to make up the material wealth and prosperity of a country. Happily no profound discussion of any question in which you as friends of the Institute are interested, is called for on this occasion. I shall therefore content myself with a few obvious comparisons and illustrations to prove what everybody already knows, that we are in the midst of progress and that the future is full of promise. The Mechanics´ Institute. I learn from the reports of the officers of the Mechanics´ Institute that it was founded on the 6th day of March, 1855, and that the first exhibition held under its auspices was inaugurated on the 7th day of September, 1857. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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