The Scottish Highlander (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Morison, J. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133036127X ISBN 13 : 9781330361276

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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They went forth to the war, but they always fell. EVERYTHING, wrote Macculloch, in his critical volumes on the Highlands, whisky, courage, ghosts, virtue orB eltain, is alike peculiar to the Highlands among those who know no country but the Highlands ;and the essayist who takes theS cottish Highlands as his subject must justify his choice by avoiding the ignorant flattery and weakly acquiescence which makes so much of the occasional literature on the subject worthless. Yet Macculloch himself found in theN orth material sufficient to fill four stout volumes; and the century which has intervened since he wrote has been rich in new collections of Highland folklore and ancient customs. And now there is a peculiar fitness in suggesting Highland life as a subject for careful study; for a century of depopulation has culminated in the melancholy figures of the latest census. A generation ago it was the decay of Highland manners which distressed the patriot ;today it is the actual disappearance of the Highland.stock from Scotland. A few years hence the historian of theN orth and West may take as his most appropriate motto: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Without undue pessimism, it must be confessed that, in theS cottish Highlander, as the representative of a coherent people, dwelling in a fixed abode, we are dealing with a survival, the term of whose existence along the old lines cannot be prolonged far into the twentieth century. With relentless precision, modern civilisation has chosen other centres on which to mass her forces; and nothing marks the old positions now but ruined cots and the decay of ancient modes of life.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133036127X
• ISBN 13: 9781330361276
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 31
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