Culture In Early Scotland (Paperback)

CULTURE CULTURE IN EAR1, Y SCOTLAND. TO LVILI-IEI, M ONC KEN, 1OClOR 01 IIIILOSOPIIY, IROI.ESSOI 01 IIISIOIT tT CEIE USIERSIIY OF IESSE, ASD SE 01 GIIIIISYS lIOS.1 1ISCINGUISlIEI COSERIIOEAlY 111 SIORIASS, A SMALL TKIL3UTE reasonitg, and have striven to render thc storj- of our past seaclable as nrcll as instructive. Iflis ncrit cannot be claimed, with the rarest csccptions, for the treatises on the history or archxology of Scotland, which arc irlisomc reading to a11 but the knovlcdgc-tlirstjr stutlcnt. IYhilst I aliloledgc my ob1igtions to the sclolass -hose industry and erudition have clonc rrluch for thc elucidation of our early civilisation, I claim thc inclulgcnce of the reader in rnaiiing all indcpcndcnt attcnpt to ortr tray the cultuse of early Scotland in the sense of thc Gcrrnan cultus. In regard both to the ncthod of trcatncnt adoptcd, atld the conclusions comc to, I voucl remasli, in the words of a great modern 1lnglish listoriarl, that ill fairness the author has a right to clcmltd that his critic should have tried to put himself in his place, aild look at the subject from his sGndpoitlt. Stulls, Lectures o11 hlctlicnI ant1 hlotlcrn 1 Iistory, 1. GO.