Albyn; or, Scotland and the futureMacDiarmid, Hugh
History
Albyn; or, Scotland and the future
MacDiarmid, Hugh
Scotland
has been in comparison with other countries, there are grounds
for anticipating that, once it does waken up, it will redeem the
leeway at a single stride and be the first to penetrate into that
arcanum which still foils even Mr de Valera with its intangible and
ubiquitous barriers.
Whether “dreamers of dreams” can still prove themselves “movers
and shakers of the world” or not, the protagonists of a Scottish
Renaissance are dreaming the dream outlined in these pages, and have
already earned at least the right to say to their countrymen in the
words of Jaurès: “It is we who are the true heirs of the ancestral
hearth: we have taken its flame while you have kept but the cinders.”
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