202 AN ADDRESS BY THE EDITORS. 
the explanation of the frontispiece or wrapper of the ‘ Phytolo- 
gist.’ We should be too happy of the privilege, and too proud 
of the honour, not to do this with the greatest alacrity, even if 
requested through a humbler channel than that which conveyed 
it to us. 
In the first place we affirm, in all sincerity, that we were not 
actuated by pedantic motives when we adopted the device and 
the mottoes with which it is associated. It is true there are on 
our title-page four distinct languages: one of them is the past 
as well as the present language of our primitive ancestors, and the 
other is the descendant of the language of our Anglo-Saxon fore- 
fathers ; or, in other words, the one is Cymry or Cambro-British, 
the other English. The Latin is the language of scientific and 
learned men throughout the world; the Greek is the language 
from which most sciences and scientific terms have derived their 
existence. The sense or meaning of our mottoes are as con- 
sistent in piety and good taste, as they are in suitability to our 
periodical. The Welsh motto, properly printed, should stand thus: 
HEB DDUW, 
HEB DDIM: 
which may be freely rendered, ‘“ God is all-sufficient ;” or, “ He 
is sufficient for everything.’”’* 
This is a genuine motto, as we learn from the following anec- 
dote, in the diary of Dr. Johnson’s ‘Tour in Wales.’ In this tour 
Mrs. Thrale records an anecdote of the ignorance of a Welsh 
clergyman in Wales, which upon this occasion was very probably 
in Johnson’s mind. ‘ On the desk (the doctor writes) lay a folio 
Welsh Bible of black letter, which the curate cannot easily read. 
A Welsh parson (so wrote the lively Mrs. Thrale) of mean abilities, 
though a good heart, struck with reverence at the sight of Dr. 
Johnson, whom he had heard of as the greatest man living, could 
not find any words to answer his inquiries respecting a motto 
round somebody’s arms, which adorned a tombstone in Ruabon 
churchyard. If I remember right, the words were— 
HEB DW, HEB DYM; 
DU O’ DIGGON: 
‘There is nothing without God; He is all-sufficient;’ and 
thouch of no very difficult construction, the gentleman seemed 
* Literally, “ Without God, without nothing.”—A Welsh idiom. 
