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Various. Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 740, March 2, 1878
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 740, March 2, 1878
Table of Contents
THE GAELIC NUISANCE
HELENA, LADY HARROGATE
CHAPTER XIII.—FATHER AND SON
OUR SEA AND SALMON FISHERIES
RACHEL LINDSAY
IRRIGATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
ALBATROSS NOTES
A NOVEL LIFE-BOAT
AWA’
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Thanking Mr Seton for this acknowledgment of the correctness of our views, we pass on to a note lately received from a sheriff-substitute in a Highland county. He says: ‘Allow me to thank you for your article in the last part of Chambers’s entitled “The Gaelic Nuisance.” I have resided here for several years, and am convinced that the civilisation of the Highlands is impossible so long as Gaelic continues to be the language of the common people. I hope your article will open the eyes of common-sense people to the necessity of abolishing Gaelic as a spoken language, by the substitution of English.’
A gentleman connected by heritage with one of the outer Hebrides, sends us a note, in which, after commenting on the grotesque objections that had been made to our article, he observes: ‘We all understand now—though a few may deceive themselves and others—that man is not made for language, but language for man. We Highlanders are determined to adopt the current language, just as we have adopted the current coin of the realm.’ This is plain speaking; and we hope that the writer, using the power which his position gives him, will in his own locality see that the children are taught to read and understand English; such, in our opinion, whatever others may think, being only a simple act of justice.
