hout, bids us look to the
same source for their cure. The true remedies are to be sought
elsewhere; for, however disastrous may have been the past, the injury
was moral rather than material, and the opportunity has now arrived for
the patient building up again of Irish character in those qualities
which win in the modern struggle for existence. The field for that great
work is clear of at least the worst of its many historic encumbrances.
Ireland must be re-created from within. The main work must be done in
Ireland, and the centre of interest must be Ireland. When Irishmen
realise this truth, the splendid human power of their country, so much
of which now runs idly or disastrously to waste, will be utilised; and
we may then look with confidence for the foundation of a fabric of Irish
prosperity, framed in constructive thought, and laid enduringly in human
character.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[48] Pages 38, 39.
[49] It must be borne in mind that the Department is not officially
concerned with the question of the economic distribution of land
referred to on pp. 46-49.
[50] For a full description of the Department's scheme of agricultural
education I may refer to a _Memorandum on Agricultural Education in
Ireland,_ written by the author and published by the Department, July,
1901.
[51] See _ante_, pp. 236-238.
[52] Speech of the Lord Lieutenant to the Incorporated Law Society,
November 20th, 1902. See also p. 170.
INDEX
A.E. (George W. Russell) 200
Agitation as a policy, 82, 83
Agricultural Board, 228, 234, _seq_. 269
Agriculture:--
Agricultural Holdings:--
Improvement of, 46 _seq_.
Transfer of peasants to new farms, 48 _seq_.
Agricultural Organisation:
Denmark, 131
Department of Agriculture and farmers' societies, 211
England, Mr. Hanbury's and Lord Onslow's views, 242
Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (see that title)
Societies 44, 45
Co-operation (see that title).
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (see that title)
Depression in, 179
Education in relation to, 126, 264 _seq_. 269
Exodus of Rural Population, 39
State-Aid, 45, 211
Tillage, decrease of, 42
Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 224, 227, 236, 238
Albert Institute, Glasnevin, 230, 271
Altruism, appeal to in co-operation, 210
America, Irish in: 72
Causes of their success and failure, 55 _seq_.
Irish in American politics, 70 _seq_.
Loss o
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