They came back to their glen and increased until the Clearances succeeded where the massacre had failed and put an end to their community. I met the leading personalities of the early Socialist movement after the first Labour Government had demoralised and killed it. Some of the idealists came over to the National Party of Scotland. They had powerful influence on that new bodv giving it much-needed experience. Of the disillusioned, some like Sir Patrick Dollan and John MacGovern took to religion.
Any new idea requires an institution to defend it and give it permanence.
In the long run that institution sacrifices some of its idea in order to maintain itself. Then the idea becomes forgotten and its means of defence replaces it. So Christianity leads to the Holy lnquisition and Socialism to the Labour Party. Each moment of his reign was polluted by cruelty and avarice, and he oppressed with an impartial hand the various inhabitants of his extensive diocese. Under the reign of Constantius he was expelled by the fury or rather by the justice, of the people, and it was not without a violent struggle that the civil and military powers of the State could restore his authority and gratify his revenge.