1. Allan Ramsay, “The Gentle Shepherd,” The Poems of Allan Ramsay, 2 vols. (1800; Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1877) 42–134, act 2, scene 3.
2. Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, ed. and trans. T. Besterman (1764; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972) 383.
3. For example, Jane Rendall, The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1707–1776 (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1978);
4. R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner, eds., The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982) passim;
5. Roger Emerson, “Scottish Cultural Change 1660–1710 and the Union of 1707,” in A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707, ed. John Robertson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 121–44;