The brains north of the border For a small country, Scotland has produced more than its fair share of influential thinkers, says Noel Malcolm

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: January 20, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The Scottish Enlightenment:

The Scots' Invention of

the Modern World

by Arthur Herman

Fourth Estate, pounds 20, 392 pp

pounds 17 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

SEVEN YEARS AGO an Irish-American writer, Thomas Cahill, published a book called How the Irish Saved Civilisation. The subject was a somewhat recondite one (the role of Irish monasticism in preserving and transmitting Christian culture during the Dark Ages), and although the book was written in a colourful and engaging style, few would have thought it had mass-market appeal. Yet it went quickly to the top of the non-fiction ...

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