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 Greek and Roman cremation, and that slab chest of forbidding ponderosity which almost seems as if placed to prevent the dead from rising.

But we may, I think, look forward in the future to a more varied and elaborate expression of respect for the memory of the dead. This will come with the development of national art which is the endeavour at the permanent expression of admiration, praise or devotion. There is amongst the Kymry a great gift of giving passionate expression to the emotions and powers of the soul, by music, by eloquence, by a great religious festival, by a mighty choral rendering, by a contagious enthusiasm for a political or national idea. But they have not made any strenuous endeavour to give permanent expression to their life in architecture, in sculpture, and in painting. The development of art, the growth of national unity, the building of an educational system, the evolution of a satisfactory social economy, each and all require much time, devoted courage, noble ideals, infinite toil.