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 strengthening of the national feeling which, like a silent tide, rises and fills the creeks and inlets of our land to-day. I think it is our duty to rear worthy memorials to our noble dead, memorials that may be to each generation tokens of our respect and admiration of those who had laboured or fought or sacrificed for the existence, the enrichment, and the ennoblement of Wales.

We are frequently led by wise people to consider what responsibility may sometimes attach to words which yet, the chance is, will be heard by few and forgotten as soon as heard. But think of the permanence of a noble building or a monumental statue. They talk to all who pass by, speak suggestively to utterly countless multitudes. They have generations of witnesses and watchers. Let us then choose a few from among the host of the noble dead of Wales who should receive some permanent expression of our admiration. We may well take types of Welshmen who have worked in four spheres of activity, those who have worked for the national existence and unity of Wales, for Cymru yn Un; those