Drummond of Hawthornden the Story of His Life And Writings

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If so, Drummond must have read with peculiar interest a political sketch which was so much like a repetition or sequel of his own Irene. For that is a fair general description of the Montrose document. It is Drum- mondism on the spring for action. There is, first of all, an asser- tion, very like that which Drummond had always been making, of the principle of Authority as paramount in States. Then there is a view of the actual state of Scotland, as utterly astray from its proper allegiance and ...far gone in anarchy and chaos. Here also the language might have been Drummond's. There is the same strain of invective against the ambition and self-seeking of 348 DRUMMOND OF HA WTHORNDEN.
individual nobles, with implied reference to Argyle as the chief ; and one detects also the same especial horror of that Plague of Black Beetles, or universal influence of the Presbyterian Clergy in State matters, with which, in the opinion of both, Scotland was then too sorely afflicted.
Though thus at one in their political notions, Montrose and Drummond were distinguished by such differences in other respects that a union of their fates was impossible.


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