Song and Scenery: Or, a Summer Ramble in Scotland (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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A wide and interesting topic lies in the relations of man to his material abode. This volume touches only one point of it, and that in the slightest and most inci dental way.

The bonds of affection between us and external nature are of our own creating, are the tenderest and most con trolling over those in whom imagination has the greatest power; and yet are most practical for all; and, in their various degrees, represent the intellectual character Of nations. The love ofa people for the land of their birth and residence is the Spring of some of the noblest and purest features of human nature, and is strongest in the best.

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