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 semi-Celtic portions of England, whilst distinctly Teutonic districts like Sussex, Essex, Kent, Bucks and Surrey have only offered a stolid and utterly futile opposition. In the great struggle of the British and Irish democracies for social equality in which we are launched, the Celts will more and more exert their influence. We have settled that political power is not for a few, but for the many; not for an aristocracy or caste, but for the whole people. Nor shall land and culture and the fruits of labour be for the few, but like the franchise, for the many. God's earth and air and water, and the use of their natural powers, materials and energies shall be in Britain, as in other more favoured lands, not for the favoured few, but for the toiling millions. The heat and burden of this struggle fall upon the Celt.

"Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere— Far other is this battle in the West Whereto we move, than when w strove in youth, And brake the petty kings, and fought with Rome, Or thrust the heathen from the Roman wall And shook him thro' the North." The old order changeth, yielding place to now And God fulfils himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."