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 would need when their present and particular work was done. The rural depopulation of Wales and the rush into industrial districts and towns make it incumbent upon us to pay increased attention to the needs and possibilities of rural Wales. There is finer ore for the making of Welsh national wealth in its peasant and cottage homes even than in its rocks and hills. And if it is a fitting social aim to repay the services of the past by devotion to the services of the present and future, then shall we be wise and dutiful in patiently planning and strenuously endeavouring to brighten and enrich the life of rural Wales whence from age to age have arisen the leaders of the causes we love and the discoverers of the light by which we live.