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Scots were the philosophers of liberty; Jews became its practitioners. One articulated the idea. The other bore its cost.The ...

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Here are two peoples almost identical in blood – the same language and religion; and yet a few years of quarrelsome isolation – in comparison with the great historical cycles – have so separated their ...