A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.