The Democratic Intellect Quotes

“There is a definite linkage between the Humanist legacy and the vernacular movement, in the sense that those scholars who did most to preserve the prestige of Buchanan as a classic text for Latin classes in Scotland were also the same men who did most to encourage the idea of the Scottish tongue as being as suitable as a vehicle for classic poetry as any other modern language.”
― George Elder Davie, The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century

“I have, I hope, done something to correct the illusion ... that the great traditional debate about philosophy is, in an age like ours, a meaningless irrelevance.”
― George Elder Davie, The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century