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our only standards of beauty and art . It is high now lacking we are in teachers and how amateurish responsibility of providing for its continuity . for the extension of the Order of Saint Benedict , Haredeous is " and Glenstal is intended secondly , to provide education of the type which boys in arts and crafts . to develop it on the lines of the parent house . Appleford , England , and thirdly , to train country English drumingen have for too many centuries been to be " a settlement ( not merely monastery ) first , many middle class Irish families now seek at We have not the trouble of initiating it nor't the blacksmiths , woodworkers and metal workers . handcraft . Glenstal provides an opportunity of The Benedictines or Haredeous have You know also how difficult it would be have been and are being trained there in large now backward we are in all these matters in Ireland , it would be , and what cost , for our Government to set The latter work has been carried to a up an organisation such as " they provide ready-made . to assemble a body of such consistent and artistic and ineffective are our own efforts at organisation . history of art and designing as well as the actual I know that you do not need to be told men as the Benedictines and how altogether impossible established a foundation here and have commenced very high degree of development in Haredsous : members . They are taught the principles and roproductions . German lithographs , French brick , a brac enamellers , " carvers of ivoryes and precious We need not pass Acts or build houses or pay teachers . immediately commencing the work of the restoration of a native art and native culture . Italian a native art and native culture . Italian .