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Scotsmen...had played a not inglorious part in the work which they were destined to share of creating a common Empire and building up a united Britain... he two countries had seen the growth of relations of mutual interest, mutual respect, and mutual understanding; and whoever tested the combination by its results in any field of thought or action or effort in learning, in literature, in statesmanship, in commerce, in the arts of peace or on the battlefield, must acknowledge that it had been a mighty combination, exercising a profound effect for good upon the world. (en) |