In his new article on the 'Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain', Professor J. Morris Jones, in the April number of Cymru, proves that the Gorsedd theology is not druidical at all, but an echo of the Cabbalistic literature which accompanied the revival of Letters and the Reformation, between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Professor Jones will probably succeed in proving that nothing connected with the Gorsedd can be traced back to a date earlier than Tudor times. It is to be hoped that, henceforth, the ignorant generalising concerning hoary antiquity and impossible druids will cease. The Gorsedd, divested of the humbug which is too often associated with it, might serve a good purpose. It might be used to show to the thousands that frequent the Eisteddfod how Literature and Music and Art are honoured in our Republic of Letters in an Eisteddfod that is the creation of a literary peasantry. But the alacrity with which the bards will hold a 'special Gorsedd', in order to confer a degree upon any rich tradesman or country squire - though absolutely wanting in the learning or genius which those degrees pre-suppose - degrade it in the eyes of all who care anything for genius, for learning in Wales.

Fe ddyfeisiodd bob math ar chwedlau di-sail am hanes Cymru o'r oesoedd cyn-Crist hyd ei oes ei hun; fe sgrifennodd gyfresi o drioedd ffug-hynafol a lluosogrwydd o ffug-gofnodion o bob math am fucheddau saint, a beirdd, ac eisteddfodau, a phob cyfryw beth; ac fe gopïodd rannau helaeth o'r hen lenyddiaeth, gan newid a llygru'r cwbl, a gwthio i mewn frawddegau a pharagraffau o'i waith ei hun er mwyn iddynt gyfateb i'w honiadau ef a'u cadarnhau. Yr ydym yn araf yn ymysgwyd o'i faglau; ond wedi cael yn rhydd o un twyll, byddwn yn aml yn ein cael ein hunain yn rhwym mewn un arall. Ac y mae lle i ofni y bydd ein llên a'n hanes am oes neu ddwy eto cyn byddant lân o ôl ei ddwylo halog ef.