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 This does not imply at all any piratical desire to upset what, I suppose, must be the normal and permanent system of industry in this country by factories and by machinery, but there is still ample and abundant room for the development of handicraft in wood, in stone and in metal. If one asks how this can be done, all I would say is this: it cannot be done suddenly and quickly, the development of taste, the gradual accumulation of hereditary skill, and the diffusion of right ideas of design and of art among a people, cannot be achieved by passing resolutions or by plebiscite, it can only come by education, by right ideals, and by patience. If we have right ideals, if we give the right encouragement, and if we persist in well-doing, then I think we deserve the right to look forward steadfastly and hopefully to the dawning of that fuller and ampler time when the cottages of Wales, when the halls of council of Wales, when the schools where the young of Wales are trained, when the temples where the manhood and womanhood of Wales pays homage to the powers that guide it and create