Excerpt from The Claims of Industrial Art: Considered With Reference to Certain Prevalent Tendencies in Education; An Address by Leslie W. Miller, Principal of the School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, Before the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia, February 27, 1908 To how many of us, even now, who are attracted by that magic word, art does not the notion come at once that here is the most exclusive, and exceptional, of human things; the thing, that is, which only the smallest possible remnant can reasonably be ex pected to know anything about, and in the actual practice of which only a minute fraction even of this remnant can hope to succeed. 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.