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be found in the attempt to convert the land 

 into a pleasure resort for multi-millionaires, 

 who are more often than not of anything but 

 British extraction. " Of course all this is," 

 as John Ruskin remarked, *' quite natural to a 

 sporting people who have learned the smell 

 of gunpowder, sulphur, and gas tar better 

 than they have that of violets and thyme." 

 Scotland indeed has need of a modern Isaiah 

 who will cry out with vigour, "Woe unto 

 them who lay field to field till there be no 

 place, that they may be placed alone in the 

 midst of the earth." 



But let us realise at once that whether it 

 be sheep or whether it be deer that displace 

 them, men, women, and children are fast dis- 

 appearing from the glens of the Highlands ; 

 and while this continues we must be prepared 

 to face racial bankruptcy nortli of the Tweed. 



There is no room in this little book to deal 

 with the Scottish problem which on the 

 publication of the last Census stirred within 

 us all a profound misgiving as to the land 

 policy, or the lack of a land policy, which we 

 have been pursuing fugitively for the last 

 hundred years. Those who claim that the land 

 given over to deer and grouse is fit for nothing 



