Art and Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, New York, 1853-4: Showing the Progress and State of the Various Useful and ... From the New York Tribune (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Art and Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, New York, 1853-4: Showing the Progress and State of the Various Useful and Esthetic Pursuits; From the New York TribuneIT has been well observed by edward everett - Who, almost alone among our public men, has achieved eminence alike amid the amenities and generous rivalries of Literature and in the sterner col lisions of Statesmanship - who in therepublic of Letters has long been a critic and a censor without wounding a just susceptibility or pro voking an undesirable enmity, and in Politics has been for thirty years a decided partisan, without limiting or qualifying the esteem and admiration with which he is regarded by his countrymen generally that It is remarkable that many of the best books have been written by persons who, at the time of writing them, had no intention of becoming authors. Indeed, with slight inclination to systemize and exaggerate, one might be tempted to maintain the position - however paradoxical it may at the first blush appear - that no good book can ever be written in any other way; that the only literature of any value is that which grows indirectly out of the real action of society, intended directly to effect some other purpose; and that when a man sits doggedly in his study, and says to himself, I mean to write a good book,' it is certain, from the necessity of the case, that the result will be a bad one.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.