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LITERARIA.
It is but natural that the chief laurels were earned by the
Scots in Sweden in the military service. And yet we
have seen that in the peaceful ways of trade and commerce
also, in the service of philanthropy and social amelioration,
the Scots have gained a most honourable position and a
name among the world’s great benefactors and Maecenases.
We have now to consider what part the Scots in Sweden
have played in the Republic of Letters, taking the word
in its widest sense. The sons of the merchants who had
settled in the Swedish commercial centres very often
preferred the life of a scholar to that offered to them in
the paternal counting-house.
The mania for education, which to this day is proverbial
for the Scot, was then conspicuous even in Sweden; and the
fact that the greater part of Northern Germany, with its
famous seats of learning at Rostock, Greifswald, and
Königsberg, was for a long time, if not Swedish, yet within
the sphere of Swedish influence, powerfully contributed
to this desire for further mental culture. Neither had
the influence of the memory of the Reformation, with its
world-renowned centre in Wittenberg, wholly died out.
For many a young scholar Wittenberg was the Palestine
to which a pilgrimage must be made, that city to which
Sweden owed her freedom of thought, nay, her very
existence, and her glory in the annals of history.
Let us be courteous, like the English Table of
Precedence, and give the first place in our review of
Scoto-Swedish scholars to the theologians.
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