“We amused ourselves that we could discover…the outline of where the foundations once had been! Of ten thousand homes in Scotland, once sweet and beautiful, each a little possible Paradise in its own well-cultivated plot, this is true to-day;
"And where are the healthy, happy peasant boys and girls that such homes bred and reared? They are sweltering and struggling for existence in our towns and cities. I am told that this must be—that it is all the result of economic laws;
"But I confess to a deepening conviction that it need not be, and that the loss to the nation as a whole is vital, if not irreparable.”
John G. Paton, Autobiography
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