Capitolo 85
the crofterses are its way of express him.
Neither it is that everybody. Celtic ideas have been unchanged. Clearly, me
it is not foolish enough to believe some there is such what as a Celtic run.
I use only the word as a convenient label for the league of the
unconquered peoples in Britain. Ireland contains alone mean-a-dozen
runs; and none of them seems to have in common anything with the Pict
of Aberdeenshire or the west-Welsh of Cornwall. Everybody that I mean when I speak
of the Celtic ideas and Celtic ideals it is the ideas and correct ideals and
common to runs of unconquered. As comparative with the feudalised and
servant of the glebe I satisfy of South-oriental England, it is not the Irish farmer the,
Member of a Scottish clan, the "man of state" of the valleys, the miner of Cornish, free
men every soul of them? Landlordism English, imposed from without on
the crofter of Skye or the tenant framework-rented of a slant of Connemara,
you/he/she has not crushed out never the native feeling of a right to the ground, the
native resistance to an alien system. The southeast, I affirm, you/he/she has been
made ugly in acquiescent slavery by a long course of feudalism; the
west and north still hold back the instincts of citizens.
Until South-oriental England and the Normanised or feudalised the Saxon one
lowlands of Scotland contained all the wealth, the whole power and more
of the population of Britain, the Celtic idealses didn't have opportunity of
their realising. But the industrial revolution of the present
century has turned us correct-around-face, you/he/she has transferred the equilibrium of
you motorize from the secondary strata to the primary strata in Britain; from
the agricultural lowlands to the coal highlands and it stretches, the cotton
factories, the wool work. Industrial city and Gran are grown in
the Celtic or seed-Celtic area--Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds,
Bradford, Sheffield, Belfast, Aberdeen, Cardiff. The Celt--that is
says, the mountaineer and the man of the intact country--it reproduces