But the Welsh language stands in the way.

Few literary or scientific works are translated into Welsh.

Hence the great educational difficulty continues, and is maintained from year to year by patriotism and Eisteddfods.
Possibly the difficulties to be encountered may occasionally evoke unusual powers of study; but this can only occur in exceptional cases.
While at Bangor Mr.Cadwalladr Davies read to me the letter of a student and professor, whose passion for knowledge is of an extraordinary character.

While examined before the Parliamentary Committee appointed to inquire into the condition of intermediate and higher education in Wales and Monmouthshire, Mr.Davies gave evidence relating to this and other remarkable cases, of which the following is an abstract, condensed by himself:-- "The night schools in the quarry districts have been doing a very great work; and, if the Committee will allow me, I will read an extract from a letter which I received from Mr.Bradley Jones, master of the Board Schools at Llanarmon, near Mold, Flintshire, who some years ago kept a very flourishing night school in the neighbourhood.

He says: 'During the whole of the time (fourteen years) that I was at Carneddi, I carried on these schools, and I believe I have had more experience of such institutions than any teacher in North Wales.