The World's Columbian Exposition marked the 400th anniversary of Columbus' “discovery” of America.
It was an exhibition celebrating the achievements of the modern age in the economy, in industry and in science.
Further reading
2002: Dokumentation zum Weltethos (“Documentation on Global Ethic”); not yet published in English
The Path of the Global Ethic Declaration
with a foreword by Hans Küng.
Hans Küng's thesis that there is a universal human ethic and
the “Project Global Ethic”, to which this thesis gave birth,
have launched waves of worldwide significance. In the present book are assembled
the central documents of the discussion about the notion of a global ethic.