Excerpt from The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, Vol. 15: For the Year 1862 Then, again, I need not say that as a patron of the Arts and Sciences, the character, conduct, and career of the Prince Consort has been most conspicuous. The arts beautify, they don't sup port they are the capital of the column they are not its foundation but, wherever Christianity has flourished in its purity, there the arts, - painting, poetry, science, literature, - have all flourished also. The Great Exhibition of 1851, I am told, was his idea. The original idea was that the Crystal Palace was to be, as it were, a mart, to show what England had done and it was his sug gestion that it should not be sectarian but catholic, not nations] but universal. He, too, I am told, originated the Great Exhibition for 1862. But that has lost a mighty attraction. We shall not be able to look on its beauty and splendour without seeing the shadow of one who was expected to be present to take the chief part. The very appearance of that exquisite and beautiful structure will be suggestive of a loss to science, a loss to the arts, a loss to the country - a loss that we all earnestly and deeply deplore. 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.