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Excerpt from Yea and Nay: A Series of Lectures and Counter-Lectures Given at the London School of Economics in Aid of the Hospitals of London
The programme represented an attempt on the part Of a small committee, working on behalf Of the Hospitals Of London, to offer to the public a new form Of intellectual entertainment. Mere oratory could be had too cheaply from the platform, the pulpit or Parliament to be a saleable commodity. Wisdom, wit and humour were purchasable from a penny upwards in periodicals, or might be borrowed at an even smaller cost from the libraries. Lantern Lectures were too self-consciously self-culture. And SO gradually was evolved the idea Of the counter-lecture. All experience had proved did not Aristotle record as much several civilizations ago - that whether in the theatre, at a bargain sale, at Lord's or at Olympia, the public dearly loves a fight. 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.
