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 of season, by word and by deed, that the only real hope of Art is in its constant application to industry and to everyday life. I would further say that it is our duty in our national system of education, in our primary school, in our secondary school, and still more in our evening continuation school, to impress the necessity for manual training, for training in the use of tools, and for training in various handicrafts. I would further say that we should give every possible encouragement to the suggestion, for instance, which was made at a Cymric gathering by Professor Herkomer, that we should not alone rely upon manual training and training in the use of tools and in handicraft in our schools, but that there should be raised in Wales one, or two, or three Schools of Art and Craft, where workmen and others can be trained, and from which we can hope to secure an adequate and permanent supply of well-trained teachers. I think also that we should, so far as possible, by this means and by other means, encourage the establishment and the fostering of home industries, of village industries in Wales.