Chapter VIII

Here the connection between the diverse movements in Scotland I indicated as so superficially incompatible becomes clear. The Credit Reform Movement is essentially one for the removal of all the false restraints under which humanity is labouring. It is not without significance that its leader, Major Douglas, should belong to the race which has suffered most abominably from the forms under which it has been subjected to two of the greatest agencies—the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution—which the impelling force, which has multiplied these restrains until “civilization” is tending to reduce the majority of mankind to the condition of robots, has utilized in securing that stranglehold on life which it is now visibly exercising. Will Scotland yet produce

“Eighth marvel of seven on earth,
A Douglas at peace?”

Do not the intolerable conditions to which it has been reduced, the unparalleled anomalies in its “national” finance, suggest that a flanking movement against the Powers of Finance may be best achieved through it. This is “the place where the spring of action will play”—where alone a counterforce to that which is not only making for centralization in all directions and superannuating such agencies of differentiation as Scots and Gaelic, but would eliminate religion by completely mechanizing the masses of mankind and make Socialism the last and worst stage in capitalism—the Servile State—rather than the first in a new and nobler order, can be generated. Here is the “comprehensive-enough agency”—“the nation-size principle”—the meeting ground of Scottish Nationalists, Catholics and Socialists, those diverse elements upon whose recognition of their interdependence, their need to complement and moderate each other, depends not only the realizable proportion of the ideals of each but a Scottish Renaissance of international consequence. Let us not fight with enemies—England, commercial Calvinism, “Progress,” thought-hating democracy—which are merely the agents of the foe that is really worthy of our steel, the cause that lies behind them all; but, in concentrating on the latter, remember that every other nation has suffered in like fashion to some degree from its operations, and make common cause with the elements in all these other countries which are seeking to overcome it.

It is noteworthy that banking and national interests in Scotland are far more conspicuously divorced from each other than in most countries. There is less “cover” here than at the centre. Leading Scottish bankers do not discourse, like their English brethren, on current topics; they confine themselves to the business in hand. Mr McKenna and the like may create a diversion by pretending to let, not the cat, but one or two of its meows out of the bag occasionally, but in Scotland the public is too docile even to need “circuses.”

The amalgamation of the Scottish banks with the English, along with such subsidiary developments or sequelæ of the same policy, as the amalgamation of the railways, and the English control of Scottish newspapers, represents one side of that picture of which the inevitable obverse is the fact that the collective area of deer forests (1,709,892 acres in 1883) is now 3,599,744 acres; seventeen Scottish counties to-day have a population less than it was fifty years ago, eleven have less than in 1821, and five less than in 1801; and of the remaining population of the country more than 45 per cent. (over two million people) live more than two in a room!

These tendencies are continuing at an accelerating rate. This is the price Scotland is paying for its “sense of participation in a larger nationality”—a sense that even then must be qualified by recognition of the fact that the “larger nationality” will in turn be subjected to the same “policy” as the “smaller” (although both, no doubt, may continue a while longer to have a sense of “Empire”)—unless Scotland comes to the rescue of England in the manner suggested.

The Scottish Convention of Burghs (of which I have been a member) is the oldest municipal institution in Europe—it is also the most effete and powerless. Otherwise its continued existence would not be tolerated for a moment. Let it discuss with any “real determination” the effect of the amalgamation of the Scottish banks, railways, etc., with the English—or the relation of the banking system to the policy of neglect and deliberate “misunderstanding” which is eviscerating Scotland—and it will speedily see the end of its long history.

Scotland’s, and more than Scotland’s, only hope—albeit yet a slender one—is through the Scottish Socialist movement, and, it may be, one of its Irish Catholic leaders. The closer inter-relationship of the Scottish Socialist and Nationalist Movements, their increasing identity of personnel, and happily, their tardy concentration on the financial aspect, is the one promising feature in the situation, unparalleled in history, in which a whole nation, reputedly hard-headed and patriotic, have been almost ineradicably persuaded by (mainly alien—or alienated) financial interests that black is white and white black until they wax only the more perfervid in their patriotic protestations, and the more diligent in their Sisyphus task of futile “thrift,” the more their country is denuded of population, status, and prosperity, and themselves of all that makes life worth living. It is significant that _The Scotsman_ and other Anglo-Scottish papers dealing with the new Draft Bill, are increasingly conceding the “advantages” of sentimental nationalism, but simultaneously warning their readers that “realistic nationalism” will be reactionary and profitless—“what Scotland wants is not a Parliament of its own, but more employment, new industries,” etc., as if the present system were supplying these, and nationalism threatened the supply. Happily, as I have said, the Scottish Home Rule Movement is rapidly re-orienting itself along realist lines, but the degree of realism achieved has not yet reached through to the financial backwork of our affairs, the real manipulation area, without control of which “self-determination” is only a delusion and a snare. This is not surprising—when that stage has not even been reached in the Irish Free State despite the long history of intense nationalistic activity there and the relatively great measure of “political success” achieved. But the Scottish psychology differs from the Irish, and, nationalistically laggard as Scotland has been in comparison with other countries, there are grounds for anticipating that, once it does waken up, it will redeem the leeway at a single stride and be the first to penetrate into that arcanum which still foils even Mr de Valera with its intangible and ubiquitous barriers.

Whether “dreamers of dreams” can still prove themselves “movers and shakers of the world” or not, the protagonists of a Scottish Renaissance are dreaming the dream outlined in these pages, and have already earned at least the right to say to their countrymen in the words of Jaurès: “It is we who are the true heirs of the ancestral hearth: we have taken its flame while you have kept but the cinders.”

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ever condensed so many hard facts into the appearance of agreeable
fiction, nor held the balance so nicely between technicalities
and flights of fancy, as the author of this excellent book in
a brilliant series. _Vulcan_ is a little book, but between
its covers knowledge and vision are pressed down and brimming
over.”—_Spectator._

=Hymen=, or the Future of Marriage. By NORMAN HAIRE.

This candid and unprejudiced survey inquires why the majority
of marriages to-day seem to be so unsatisfactory, and finds the
answer in the sexual ethic of our civilization which is ill adapted
to our social and economic needs. The problems of sex-morality,
sex-education, prostitution, in-breeding, birth-control,
trial-marriage, and polygamy are all touched upon.

=The Next Chapter=: the War against the Moon. By ANDRÉ MAUROIS, author of ‘Ariel’, etc.

This imaginary chapter of world-history (1951-64) from the pen of
one of the most brilliant living French authors mixes satire and
fancy in just proportions. It tells how the press of the world is
controlled by five men, how world interest is focussed on an attack
on the moon, how thus the threat of world-war is averted. But when
the moon retaliates....

=Galatea=, or the Future of Darwinism. By W. RUSSELL BRAIN.

This non-technical but closely-reasoned book is a challenge to the
orthodox teaching on evolution known as Neo-Darwinism. The author
claims that, although Neo-Darwinian theories can possibly account
for the evolution of forms, they are quite inadequate to explain
the evolution of functions.

=Scheherazade=, or the Future of the English Novel. By JOHN CARRUTHERS.

A survey of contemporary fiction in England and America lends to
the conclusion that the literary and scientific influences of
the last fifty years have combined to make the novel of to-day
predominantly analytic. It has thus gained in psychological
subtlety, but lost its form. How this may be regained is put
forward in the conclusion.

=Caledonia=, or the Future of the Scots. By G. M. THOMSON.

Exit the Scot! Under this heading the Scottish people are revealed
as a leaderless mob in whom national pride has been strangled. They
regard, unmoved, the spectacle of their monstrous slum-evil, the
decay of their industries, the devastation of their countryside.
This is the most compact and mordant indictment of Scottish policy
that has yet been written.

=Albyn=, or Scotland and the Future. By C. M. GRIEVE, author of ‘Contemporary Scottish Studies’, etc.

A vigorous answer, explicit and implicit, to _Caledonia_,
tracing the movements of a real Scottish revival, in music, art,
literature, and politics, and coming to the conclusion that there
is a chance even now for the regeneration of the Scottish people.

=Lares et Penates=, or the Future of the Home. By H. J. BIRNSTINGL.

All the many forces at work to-day are influencing the planning,
appearance, and equipment of the home. This is the main thesis of
this stimulating volume, which considers also the labour-saving
movement, the ‘ideal’ house, the influence of women, the servant
problem, and the relegation of aesthetic considerations to the
background. Disconcerting prognostications follow.

_NEARLY READY_

=Archon=, or the Future of Government. By HAMILTON FYFE.

A survey of the methods of government in the past leads the author
to a consideration of conditions in the world of to-day. He then
indicates the lines along which progress may develop.

=Hermes=, or the Future of Chemistry. By T. W. JONES, B.SC., F.C.S.

Chemistry as the means of human emancipation is the subject of
this book. To-day chemistry is one of the master factors of our
existence; to-morrow it will dominate every phase of life, winning
for man the goal of all his endeavour, economic freedom. It may
also effect a startling change in man himself.

=The Future of Physics.= By L. L. WHYTE.

The last few years have been a critical period in the development
of physics. We stand on the eve of a new epoch. Physics, biology,
and psychology are converging towards a scientific synthesis of
unprecedented importance whose influence on thought and social
custom will be so profound as to mark a stage in human evolution.
This book interprets these events and should be read in connexion
with _Gallio_, by J. W. N. Sullivan, in this series.

=Ikonoclastes=, or the Future of Shakespeare. By HUBERT GRIFFITHS.

Taking as text the recent productions of classical plays in modern
dress, the author, a distinguished dramatic critic, suggests that
this is the proper way of reviving Shakespeare and other great
dramatists of the past, and that their successful revival in modern
dress may perhaps be taken as an indication of their value.

_IN PREPARATION_

=Bacchus=, or the Future of Wine. By P. MORTON SHAND.

=Mercurius=, or the World on Wings. By C. THOMPSON WALKER.

=The Future of Sport.= By G. S. SANDILANDS.

=The Future of India.= By T. EARLE WELBY.

=The Future of Films.= By ERNEST BETTS.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added,
when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Pg 23: ‘more medieval in’ replaced by ‘more mediæval in’.
Pg 53: ‘is not suprising’ replaced by ‘is not surprising’.

Catalog:
Pg C17: ‘their montrous’ replaced by ‘their monstrous’.