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Although when the Gaelic League was
started I did all in my power to make and
keep it non-political, yet I thought all along that
a time would one day come when it would itself
take part in politics. However after running it
some years upon non-political lines it got
to be so firmly established on a non-political
basis that, for some years at least, I doubt
if it would have been in anyone's power to have
switched it on to politics. I remember saying
that it just showed the power of repetition
and suggestion, for even those people who
would gladly have dragged it into politics
looked upon its non-political constitution as
something inevitable, and even something