THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF WELSH NATIONALISM

Foreward

"Members of our party are often reminded that no nation can live on its past, but this is no more than a dangerous half-truth, as it is equally certain that no nation can know the direction of its true development without the knowledge of its origins and the lines of its growth. We believe with Patrick Pierce that the ideal of all healthy politics should be to make the present a rational continuation of the past, and we do not look on our own history as if it were a cave to shelter the irresolute dreamer from the storms of his own day, but rather as a power-house that will give him the strength to withstand them."

D. M. L.