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her foemen, and of her sons and daughters THE Scotchman looks in vain beyond the murdered to satisfy the passions born of feulast fifty years for the intellectual glory of his dalism, has been cast aside to wither, or to be country. That mental vigor and depth and regarded as an object of inferior interest; capacity and perspicacity which so distin- and the voice of her genius has suddenly guish the Scottish mind, had only flashed out swelled into a symphony of glory, speaking in premonitory scintillations before the scep- in the holiest strains of poetry, in the deepticism of Hume aroused it from its sleep of est tones of Christian philosophy, in the most ages, and developed it in all its thoughtful humanizing expressions of mechanical power, majesty and strength. While England was and in the most exalted eloquence of art. If listening to the graphic and glowing strains Scotland could present no parallel to the arof the accomplished Chaucer, Scotland was ray of great literary names which graces the imbibing ferocity from the screamings of the annals of England at the epoch of the Reslogan; and when England had given to formation and Commonwealth, the era of the mental philosophy and poetry a Bacon, a first French Revolution finds her second to Locke, a Shakspeare, and a Milton, her north-no country in the majesty of her intellectual ern sister had still to deplore the sterility soul. In Reid, Brown, Dugald Stewart, Playof her genius. It is true that Sir David fair, and Sir James Mackintosh, she exhibited Lindsay and Dunbar had struck the harp that philosophical courage and illustrious virto higher strains than those which generally tue which were essentially requisite to succharacterized Scottish poetical expression; cessfully combat with the subtle scepticisms and that John Knox and George Buchanan of Hume. In Burns, she gave to the world had invested Scotch controversy with a wild a poet as versatile as Shakspeare, and a lyrist and earnest genius, as well as high scholastic as burning as Sappho. Her Scott was the dignity; these, however, were only the pre- Colossus of history, poetry, and romance; her cursory flashes of a deeply hidden fountain Jeffrey the Aristarchus of literary criticism, of mental fire. They shone amidst a nation and the Cicero of the forensic tribune; while rude and stern and dark; as if to let that to the mechanical genius of her James Watt nation know her innate strength of mind and the industrial world bends in grateful homage. the capacities which she possessed for assuming a dignified position in the arena of intellect.

There is no doubt that Scotland was never destitute of minds of the first order and power. Fierce, fiery energy, and indomitable courage, joined to speculative ideality were always characteristics of the Scotch; but these qualities were for centuries only exhibited upon the field of war, or the field of polemical strife; and the men who might have enlightened a grateful world with the light of art or poetry or mental philosophy or science, passed away into a dark oblivion, after having struggled their brief hour upon the stage of local controversy. It is scarcely half a century since Scotland could claim a respectable place in the catalogue of British literature or science; within the compass of that short period, however, she has most effectively presented herself in the van of thinking, teaching nations. The garland of warlike pre-eminence which she had worn with pride upon her hectic brow for nearly nineteen centuries, red reeking with the blood of *Written some years ago.

In fifty years the Scottish mind made itself a fame as illustrious as other nations have done in centuries. Bold, enterprising, and indomitable, her sons went abroad to conquer the realms of science, and to bring to her shrine the chaplets of loftiest literary honor. They explored the interiors of regions before the unknown dangers of which a Columbus or a Gama would have quailed; they tracked the courses of rivers over burning deserts and rocky valleys, where the simoom sported with the lives of the daring travellers, and the red-hot sun glared down in wonderment upon their pale faces. They followed the sceptic through the arcana of nature, reconciling the cosmogony of revelation with the discoveries of modern science, and refuting infidelity upon the material basis of its self-assumed arguments. Wherever mind could exercise a legitimate majesty, Scotchmen have majestically exercised it. In every region subject to human dominance they have asserted a special dominion.

To Sir David Brewster incontestably belongs the greatest name on the roll of scientific Scotchmen. Although only a profes