# Albyn; or, Scotland and the future Author: MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74438 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Albyn%3B+or%2C+Scotland+and+the+future+MacDiarmid&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The forces that are moving towards a Scottish Renaissance are complex and at first sight incompatible. The movement began as a purely literary movement some seven or eight years ago, but of necessity speedily acquired political and then religious bearings. It is now manifesting itself in every sphere of national arts and affairs, and is at once radical and conservative, revolutionary and reactionary. Engaged in traversing the accepted conceptions of all things Scottish, it is in keeping that it should not have set the heather on fire. But it has made far greater headway than what has appeared about it in the English or Anglo-Scottish Press would indicate. For obvious reasons these are con... ## Chapters - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/albyn-or-scotland-and-the-future-74438/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/albyn-or-scotland-and-the-future-74438/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/albyn-or-scotland-and-the-future-74438/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/albyn-or-scotland-and-the-future-74438/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/albyn-or-scotland-and-the-future-74438/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/albyn-or-scotland-and-the-future-74438/chapters/6/index.md)