Thomas Davis, Selections From His Prose And Poetry
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How could a Greek distort his organs and his soul to speak Dutchupon the sides of the Hymettus, or the beach of Salamis, or on thewaste where once was Sparta? And is it befitting the fiery, delicate-organed Celt to abandon his beautiful tongue, docile andspirited as an Arab, "sweet as music, strong as the wave"--is itbefitting in him to abandon this wild, liquid speech for the mongrel ofa hundred breeds called English, which, powerful though it be, creaksand bangs about the Celt who tries to us...e it? We lately met a glorious thought in the "Triads of Mochmed, " printed inone of the Welsh codes by the Record Commission: "There are threethings without which there is no country--common language, commonjudicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannotsupport itself in peace and social union. " A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nationshould guard its language more than its territories--'tis a surerbarrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river.
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