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what he says of the influence of the Scottish Reformed 

 Church, he would doubtless permit us to regard as the 

 complement of his previous statement. ' Scotch Litera- 

 ture and Thought/ he exclaims, ' Scotch Industry ; 

 James Watt, David Hume, Walter Scott, Robert Burns : 

 I find Knox and the Reformation acting in the heart's 

 core of every one of these persons and phenomena ; 

 I find that without the Reformation they would not 

 have been. Or what of Scotland ? The Puritanism of 

 Scotland became that of England, of New England. A 

 tumult in the High Church of Edinburgh spread into a 

 universal battle and struggle over all these realms ; there 

 came out, after fifty years' struggling, what we all call 

 the " Glorious Revolution," a Habeas-Corpus Act, Eree 

 Parliaments, and much else ! ' 



No Church has been more thoroughly popular than 

 the Reformed Church of Scotland, and, if we apprehend 

 the character and history of that Church, we shall have 

 no difficulty in understanding how this has been the 

 case. The Scottish people embraced the principles of 

 the Reformation with unanimity and ardour ; and from 

 the time when the Reformed Church gained the ascend- 

 ant in Scotland down to the period of the Revolution 

 Settlement, the Church was always identified with the 

 party of political freedom and national independence. 

 The prosperity of the Church was coincident with the 

 vindication of the national honour and the spread of the 

 national influence ; the humiliation of the Church was 

 accompanied by the political debasement of the people. 

 These things go together in the history of those times 

 with a singular precision and constancy ; the one is to 

 the other, in the windings of Scotland's fortune, as 

 the bank is to the stream. The aggressive pride and 

 self-confident enthusiasm of Scotland never towered so 



