Scottish Ancestry Unites Scots Everywhere
Robert Louis Stevenson was proud and keenly aware of his Scottish heritage. He wrote eloquently about the magical qualities of Scotland that unites Scots from all walks of life:
“The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he … remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.”
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