Today Americans call their descendants "Scotch-Irish," but we must consider them Scots in every significant respect. In truth, they are the first rep… - Arthur Herman

Villagers still worship at shrines dedicated to gods and goddesses with roots in the Stone Age.12 Compared to this unequaled staying power, the British Raj seemed very transitory — like every other ruler or conqueror in Indian history. Gandhi made his own view plain in 1909, in his Hind Swaraj. "History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of love or of the soul," he wrote, "a record of the interruption of the course of nature."

the Secret Service had unearthed a covert industrial spy network operating at the behest of a German commercial attaché

They stand as living proof of Marshal Ferdinand Foch's words "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."