Welsh in Wales!'

But let us leave the dead to bury their dead, and let us who are
alive go on unto perfection. Let the Celtic members of this empire
consider that they too have to transform themselves; and though the
summons to transform themselves he often conveyed harshly and
brutally, and with the cry to root up their wheat as well as their
tares, yet that is no reason why the summons should not be followed
so far as their tares are concerned. Let them consider that they are
inextricably bound up with us, and that, if the suggestions in the
following pages have any truth, we English, alien and uncongenial to
our Celtic partners as we may have hitherto shown ourselves, have
notwithstanding, beyond perhaps any other nation, a thousand latent
springs of possible sympathy with them. Let them consider that new
ideas and forces are stirring in England, that day by day these new
ideas and forces gain in power, and that almost every one of them is
the friend of the Celt and not his enemy. And, whether our Celtic
partners will consider this or no, at any rate let us ourselves, all
of us who are proud of being the ministers of these new ideas, work
incessantly to procure for them a wider and more fruitful
application; and to remove the main ground of the Celt's alienation
from the Englishman, by substituting, in place of that type of
Englishman with whom alone the Celt has too long been familiar, a new
type, more intelligent, more gracious, and more humane.



THE STUDY OF CELTIC LITERATURE