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 the beautiful hills and fair valleys of Wales. He would be a standing protest against characterless, meaningless and make-shift buildings. He would help to hold before the eyes of the Welsh people the need for the Seven Lamps of Architecture: for sacrifice; truth, power, beauty, love, memory and obedience. He would help to increase the influences for elevating public taste and for making Architecture, like Music, a popular and democratic Art. And amply would any effort and sacrifice incurred in the establishment of such a School of Architecture be repaid if it served to renew and restore those faculties amongst the Architects and builders. and workmen of Wales which produced those abbeys, religious edifices, mansions and homesteads which here and there form a true adornment to the landscape of Wales. Thus an added and deeper meaning would be given to the aspiration,—"I godi'r hen wlad yn ei hôl."