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SECOND GENERAL SESSION. 
TUESDAY. JULY 25TH, 8 O'CLOCK P.M. 
ADDRESS. 
BY DR. JAMES B. ANGELL, PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. 
I THINK you will all agree with me that the work of these educational 
congresses underlies, in some sense, the work of all the other congresses 
which have been or which may be held at this time. Perhaps I might 
setter say that the work of this congress overarches, enfolds, and encom- 
passes the work of all the other congresses, as the sky encompasses and 
anfolds the earth; for all art, and all sciences—what hope of progress 
have these, what hope of perpetuity have they, except as the moral and 
‘ntellectual discipline which we are engaged in cultivating is preserved ? 
As we walk through the avenues of the White City,” and stand fas- 
inated and enchanted with the splendid architecture upon the right hand 
and upon the left, and behold the marvelous collection of the works of 
industry and of art from all parts of the civilized and from many parts 
of the uncivilized world, think you there is not one of us who has not 
at times felt the inexpressible pathos of the thought which has brought 
tears to so many eyes—the thought that in four short months all this 
architecture, and all this marvelous collection of all the treasures of 
industry and of art, shall have vanished forever, like the unsubstantial 
tabric of a vision, leaving mot a rack behind ? But the intelligence 
which has formed them, the genius which has fashioned them, the great 
deas which are incorporated in them—these abide and shall abide forever 
and forever ; and it is to these that you and I and every teacher address 
our work day by day. We work in that which is eternal and which shall 
never pass away. Therefore it is, I think, that the interest in education 
is so abiding, is so widespread, is so universal to-day in every part of the 
civilized globe. Therefore it is that to-day our distinguished friends come 
to us, having made the dreary voyage across the wide waste of seas, and 
having made the journey across half the continent, to speak to us, in sym- 
pathy and in love, of those things which are dear to us and dear to them. 
We are glad for their presence here to-night ; we desire to thank them for 
their kindness in coming to us. The names and works of some of them 
have long been known to us, and we give them thanks, and we give God 
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