Scotland's exit would be something to bemoan
The 1707 union likely spurred the Scottish Enlightenment - a remarkable phase of intellectual activity that changed the world
Adam Smith, Hume, Frances Hutcheson,Boswell, James Watt, Maxwell, Kelvin, Walter Scott
All Scots!
The 1707 union likely spurred the Scottish Enlightenment - a remarkable phase of intellectual activity that changed the world
Adam Smith, Hume, Frances Hutcheson,Boswell, James Watt, Maxwell, Kelvin, Walter Scott
All Scots!
The list is endless
I am not sure if this would have happened without the Union - which transformed Scotland from a poor country at the margins of the known world, into the intellectual engine of the Enlightenment
I am not sure if this would have happened without the Union - which transformed Scotland from a poor country at the margins of the known world, into the intellectual engine of the Enlightenment
Here's what Adam Smith had to say about the merits of the Union of England and Scotland
"By the union with England the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a complete deliverance from the power of an aristocracy which had always before oppressed them."
"By the union with England the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a complete deliverance from the power of an aristocracy which had always before oppressed them."
