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EDUCATION begins at home and, by stages which become more formal and circumscribed with each advance, proceeds to the primary and to the secondary schools, and for a fortunate few leads to the university. But outside the formal education, and for many more potent than it in building character and creating loyalties, almost as powerful as the home, is the influence of the geographical region in which impressionable years are spent. The Scottish clans were regional units, and it is this fealty to place which has been guided to the service of a wider patriotism in the territorial regiments, and which, so long as recruitment was more or less confined to the regiment's area and dilution by 'foreigners' was avoided, ensured for each regiment its own distinctive and cherished esprit de corps.
The Book of Buchan
(Jubilee Volume.) A conjoint Publication in five Sections on the North-East in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Times, by sixteen Contributors and eight Chapters by the Editor. Edited and arranged by Dr. J. F. Tocher. Pp. xii + 330 + 44 plates. (Aberdeen: Dr. J. F. Tocher, 41½ Union Street, 1943.) 21s.
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RITCHIE, J. The Book of Buchan. Nature 153, 328 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153328a0
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