The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.