Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rose to be LordChancellor, was one of theoriginal tifty Friends of thePeople, and defended TomPaine on his trial. His brotherHenry remained in their native Edinburgh, where his Whiggism excluded him from public lifeand the highest rewards of his profession, despite the beauty of hischaracter and the wit and eloquence of which his countrymenwere so proud. The Tory reign fostered a generation of privi-leged me
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . rose to be LordChancellor, was one of theoriginal tifty Friends of thePeople, and defended TomPaine on his trial. His brotherHenry remained in their native Edinburgh, where his Whiggism excluded him from public lifeand the highest rewards of his profession, despite the beauty of hischaracter and the wit and eloquence of which his countrymenwere so proud. The Tory reign fostered a generation of privi-leged mediocrities, whereas the cold shades of opposition pro-duced the band that founded the Edinburgh Review (1802;p. 802), Brougham, Jeffrey, Horner, and Sydney Smith. A treatise would not exhaust the marvellous story of the Rise ofmaking of industrial Scotland. The tirst solid start in materialprogress came with the close of the Seven Years War (1763).Pioneers had been at work here and there ever since the vmionunder the impetus of Dutch and EngUsh examples. The Duchessof Gordon, daughter of the Earl of Peterborough, was the firstto bring ploughs from the South, and men used to the new. LORD CHAXCKLLOll ERSKINE. (2\atioHal Portrait Gallery.) Industry. Agricul-ture. 688 REVOLUTION AND REACTION. [1784 methods of soAving grasses, making hay, planting waste lands,and draining morasses. On the Borders a pioughboy, Dawson,applied lessons which, in a spirit of adventure, he had travelledto learn under Bakewell (p. 406), and about 1764 sowed seventyacres of turnips. In the same district the famous judge. LordKarnes, began his career as the most notable of every step forward he was directly or indirectly of veteran soldiers were tried (1752-59) on his reclaimedlands in Perthshire, but without success. The poor feudaltenants, however, driven out of the upland straths, were turnedto excellent account. Kames did more : his Gentleman Fanner(1777) marked an era
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