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ation. A Scottish child hears much of shipwreckoutlying
iron skerriespitiless breakersand great sea-lights; much of heathery
mountainswild clansand hunted Covenanters. Breaths come to him in
song of the distant Cheviots and the ring of foraying hoofs. He glories
in his hard-fisted forefathersof the iron girdle and the handful of oat-
mealwho rode so swiftly and lived so sparely on their raids. Poverty
ill-luckenterpriseand constant resolution are the fibres of the legend of
his country's history. The heroes and kings of Scotland have been
tragically fated; the most marking incidents in Scottish history - Flodden
Darienor the Forty-five were still either failures or defeats; and the fall
of Wallace and the repeated reverses of the Bruce combine with the very
smallness of the country to teach rather a moral than a material criterion
for life. Britain is altogether smallthe mere taproot of her extended
empire: Scotlandagainwhich alone the Scottish boy adopts in his
imaginationis but a little part of thatand avowedly coldsterile and
unpopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived
in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are
greatand richand growinglike [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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