There was a large attendance on Tuesday evening at the Philharmonic Hall, where the Rev. T. R. Stevenson was announced to deliver a lecture with the above title, under the auspices of the Shanghai Literary and Debating Society. The chair was taken by the President of the Society, Mr, John Macgregor, who in briefly introducing the lecturer, observed that the evening, in contrast to the previous gathering of members and friends, was to be devoted to the purely literary aspect of the Society's operations. He had no doubt they would hear from Mr. Stevenson something they would all like to carry away with them on the foolishness of wisdom and the foolishness which springs altogether from folly.
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