L, Hawks Pott said:—The enterprise should certainly make a strong, appeal to the civie pride of this community.
When the visitor arrives, we can point out our wonderful banks, Rewspaper offices, insurance offices, and Custom House. The Bund ly becoming one of the most} beautiful streets in the world.
When, however, our visitor inquires as to our seats of learning, we have not much to show. him. We lead him to Museum Road and point out the building of the Royal Asiatic Society and tell him that in it are housed a remarkable museum, Oriental library, place where the intelligentsia of Shanghai hold their meetings for the discussion of subjects of great, intellectual interest.
So, I say, civie pride should be strong motive for this commu to contribute towards the erection' of a building worthy of the intellectual interests of the commun-ling where we would have the development of the museum into one of the finest in the East, and for a library that} would have a world wide reputation.
The Royal Asiatic Society has great educational value, not only, for savants who wish to delve into some abstruse point in regard to the philosophy, religion, language and anthropology of the East, but also for the ordinary man or woman who is not content to live in China without knowing something about the history, geography, custom and ideas of the people in whose midst we live.
I would like to say just one other word in regard to the value of this society, It is another means by which ce-operation between East and West may be advanced. We welcome Chinese as members of the Society, and we are glad to have lectures from prominent Chinese Dr. Hawks-Pott then proposed that the Council be instructed to make an appeal to provide Tls. 100,000 for the purpose of rebuilding, and that the Council be auth-erizod to appoint a sub-committes and report to a further general
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