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 to the forces which make for the social well-being of humankind. We are now in the midst of one of the most tumultuous social movements which this country and Europe have ever witnessed, hi this great movement for placing upon a stabler and a more satisfactory and permanent basis the social relations and duties of man to man, in this movement towards Socialism, what has been the contribution of Wales?

Though Wales is, in modem times, largely individualist, we cannot but feel that it has been the land of cyfraith, cyfar, cyfnawdd, cymarthau, and cymanfaoedd, the land of social co-operation, of associative effort. It is significant that the initiator in Britain of the movement for collective and municipal activity in the common effort for the common good was Robert Owen, who embodied in these latter days the spirit of the old Welsh social economy. He was born at Newtown, whither, after a strenuous career, he came to die. There was something striking and significant in the fact that among those who escorted the remains of Robert Owen to their