# The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther ## Metadata * Author: [Walter Scott and Lawrence H. White](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B096FXXR56 * ISBN: 1630692174 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096FXXR56 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B096FXXR56) ## Highlights The credit made possible by issuing banknotes “has converted Scotland, from a poor, miserable and barren country into one where, if Nature has done less, Art and Industry have done more, than in perhaps any country in Europe, England herself not excepted. Through means of the credit which this system has afforded, roads have been made, bridges built, and canals dug.” — location: [228](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B096FXXR56&location=228) ^ref-28912 --- There can be no doubt that their love of a system, which, if not perfect, has so much in it that is excellent, originates in the most praiseworthy feelings. Call it if you will the prejudice of education, it is still a prejudice honourable in itself, and useful to the public. I only find fault with it, because, like the Friars in the Duenna34 monopolizing the bottle, these English Monks will not tolerate in their lay-brethren of the North the slightest pretence to a similar feeling. — location: [455](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B096FXXR56&location=455) ^ref-53226 --- But neglected as she was, and perhaps because she was neglected, Scotland, reckoning her progress during the space from the close of the American war to the present day, has increased her prosperity in a ratio more than five times greater than that of her more fortunate and richer sister. — location: [480](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B096FXXR56&location=480) ^ref-37594 --- She has been of late a sort of experimental farm, upon which every political student has been permitted to try his theory—a kind of common property, where every juvenile statesman has been encouraged to make his inroads, — location: [484](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B096FXXR56&location=484) ^ref-28199 ---