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For a country with a resident population of only five million, Scotland has produced a surprisingly large number of people who have made a significant contribution to science, philosophy, economics, and more, plus warriors, explorers, inventors, writers, poets, and more. Scots have made their name across the globe achieving greatness but it is a humble wordsmith, Robert Burns, who has been judged the greatest-ever Scot in a poll of academics and historians. When Ralph Waldo Emerson traveled to Britain, he looked at the poor Scottish ground studded with stones and asked his friend Thomas Carlyle what could be grown in that soil. “We grow men,” said Carlyle.
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