Barrowsgate is not impressed with an account of a talk given by Lord Raglan at the British Association (for the Advancement of Science) in which he suggests that the Scots are not an ancient race. With a combination of logic and the Old Testament, Barrowsgate demolishes Raglan’s argument.
Like Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Lord Raglan was a prominent “diffusionist”, who believed human civilisation began in Egypt with a community of peaceful hunter-gatherers, and gradually developed more settled lives based on agriculture.