Excerpt from International University Lectures, Vol. 1: Delivered by the Most Distinguished Representatives of the Greatest Universities of the World
Education, in its broadest purpose, was never so powerfully, substantially and concretely promoted as by the plan which recently culminated in an International Congress of Arts and Science. Every civilized nation has adopted a method of public instruction, and while there is a marked dissimilarity, sometimes offering contrasts, each has an element of good, and the effects are wholesome. The International Congress of Arts and Science was therefore proposed with the view to the bringing together representatives of the various schools, thereby assimilating, in a measure, the experience and results, the theories and practices of the several methods in use. Another purpose, equally prominent, was to present by lectures, to be delivered by the most distinguished educators, investigators, and scientists, the determinations, discoveries and inquiries in the fields of research calculated to advance and exalt the spirit of highest civilization.
Never before in history has such a beneficent purpose been so well accomplished, or such a gathering of the worlds greatest savants been seen, as distinguished this famous Congress, an assemblage which was possible only through the active aid given by the rulers of participating governments, and the expenditure of a vast sum of money.
The series of lectures delivered at this epochal Congress embrace, in a distinctly authoritative way, practically every subject with which both the scientific enquirer and the masses are most concerned.
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