The union, centuries old, in the Scottish mind
and heart of the most uncompromising devotion to individual liberty
with the most fervid patriotism, is a sentiment of which the world
stands greatly in need to-day. We need not go far to find evidence of
how perilous it is to sink regard for the great conception of human
brotherhood in a narrow, nationalistic concern for individual
interests. In the Scottish conception of liberty, _duties_ have always
been rated as highly as _rights_; it has been a constructive, not a
destructive formula; it has been an inspiration to raise men out of
themselves, not to prompt them to indulge in antics of promiscuous
leveling. The kind of democracy for which Scotsmen have deemed that
the world should be made safe is a human brotherhood, indeed, but a
brotherhood imbued with the generous rivalry of effort, the enthusiasm
of emulous achievement, and not one of inglorious, monotonous and
colorless equality.
JOHN FOORD
CONTENTS
Foreword 3
Scottish Emigration to the American Colonies 11
Some Prominent Scots and Scots Families 24
Scots as Colonial and Provincial Governors 32
Scots and the Declaration of Independence 36
Scots as Signers of the Declaration of Independence 38
Scots in the Presidency 40
Scots as Vice-Presidents 41
Scots as Cabinet Officers 42
Scots in the Senate 45
Scots in the House of Representatives 47
Scots in the Judiciary 48
Scots as Ambassadors 51
Scots as State Governors 53
Scots in the Army 60
Scots in the Navy 65
Scots as Scientists 67
Scots as Physicians 73
Scots in Education 76
Scots in Literature 81
Scots in the Church and Social Welfare 84
Scots as Lawyers 87
Scots in Art, Architecture, etc.
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