Abstract
Scottish people during this period did not seek to discover their “identity,” which we, as post-Romantics in a period of reaction, instinctively would expect today. Instead, many of them developed highly articulated notions of civic society and sought to realize them in a new and radical Britain. This projected Britain would provide a model for world renewal. Further, civic society was imagined as intensely anti-imperial. It constituted the direct opposite of the Hapsburg-papal universal monarchy. At the same time it was not an order to be imposed on some putatively inferior “other,” but a universal (and soteriological) transformation involving everyone.
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