"One generation has set Cornish on its feet. It is now for another to make it walk."
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Quoted in AN INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC STUDY ON CORNISH by EKOS Limited (April 2000) p.9.
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Robert Morton Nance
1873 – 1959
Robert Morton Nance (1873-1959) was a Cornish language revivalist, nautical archaeologist, joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society and Grand Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh.
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