Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… of Britain, Europe, America and the colonies in general. They would indeed correspond with each other and share their publications. Edinburgh became such an important centre of the Enlightenment that all the important debates in Scotland, … Walter Scott’s defense of the idea of a complementarity between Scotland and England for the benefit of Great Britain , public opinion accepted the idea of a Scottish cultural specificity compatible with the Union and the idea of British … a civilized, cultured Scotland which, they believed, could still improve thanks to the British Union and the wider Republic of Letters (McElroy 62, 322). From 1765, the Select Society believed the use of English was the surest way to make …
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