The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) March 1928

It is not the function of the University to question the rights of individual political opinion but the unseemly conduct of members of the University acting no doubt under the incitement of outside influence is calculated to shake the confidence of the supporters and well-wishers of the University's progress. [...] The original investigation -of truth the discovery of the secrets of Nature the opening of new paths for the march of the human mind —this is the work not of the multitude but of 'a select few. [...] Let him make his choice between the eternal verities on the one hand and the popular delusions and misrepresentations of the hour on the other between the sway of reason and the insurrection of the passions between holding his strength in reserve till the proper time for its use and making premature theatrical demonstrations between self-discipline and moral anarchy. [...] The aim of the piece is to show the cntrast between the ancient Ireland of Pagan faith and a Pagan enjoyment of beauty and the later one of Christianity. [...] Folk art is indeed the oldest of the aristocracies of thought and because it refuses what is passing and trivial the merely clever and ' pretty as certainly as the vulgar and insincere and because it has gathereinto itself the simplest and most unforgettable thoughts of the generations it is the soil where all great art is rooted.