Glasgow Cathcart (Scottish Parliament Constituency) - Member of The Scottish Parliament

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—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:15.

“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.”
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