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    The Exposition and the Contresses may be mentioned in conjunction, and detailed account of them has been deferred until after the account of the perpetual resources of Paris, because to the eye of the anthropologist the whole Exposition seemed to have been arranged for his special pleasure and profit by his colleagues there. 

    There is no doubt that the institutions of Paris above described and the men most concerned in them, had a commanding influence in shaping and arranging much of the great Exposition. Owing to this living connection between men and things the glory of the French Exposition which elevated it above its predecessors was the Congresses, one hundred and twenty of which were held between May and October. Every one of them was to the writer's mind intensely anthropological, relating to the history and natural history of invention. But, omitting all of these that were especially practical, there was a series which covered the whole ground of the science of man, his embryology, anatomy, anthropometry, physiology, psycho-physics, psychology, language, race, primitive institutions, customs, laws, philosophy, conduct, religion and distribution in time and place as the following titles will show: -