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 be a real addition to that village and something that would, perhaps, kindle the young mind there, if a fitting monument, say a Celtic cross, such as you find in Pembrokeshire and in many parts of Ireland, were raised in honour of the men who have been reared in that parish. Four names at once occur to me as being worthy to be placed side by side or one after another on such a village cross. For a parish which has produced at various ages Tudur Aled, William Salisbury, William Rees, and Henry Rees, is a parish which can be very proud of itself, and a parish which ought, I think, to rear for generations of its children a monument to show that it appreciates the services which men who have been reared and who have lived in that parish have rendered not only to that countryside but to the whole of Wales, and some of them to humanity.

To sum up these stray thoughts of mine, I would say that our duty is, first of all, to banish from our minds the idea that Art is something really confined to painting and to sculpture, and to impress, in season and out