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  THE SCOTCH-IRISH OR THE SCOT IN NORTH BRITAIN, NORTH IRELAND, AND NORTH
  AMERICA
  CHAPTER IX RELIGION IN EARLY SCOTLAND AND EARLY ENGLAND
  THE real differences between the religious life of Scotland and that of
  England are not wholly those of creed and polity, brought about by the
  Reformation of the sixteenth century. They would seem to go back much
  farther than that period, and to have given evidence of existence more
  than nine hundred years before. They may have originated from the radical
  differences between the ancient pagan mythology of the Druids and that of
  the Teutons. The religious genius of early Scotland was, of course,
  largely Celtic, and there is no reason for believing that the more or
  less complete but very gradual amalgamation of the early race with that
  of the Norse and the Angle has essentially altered the inherent racial
  tendency toward emotional fervor and intensity. Going from a warmer
  climate into the comparatively bleak and northern country of Caledonia,
  the early Celt doubtless became more "hard-headed," and lost much of that
  exuberance of emotion which to-day is so characteristic of his cousins in
  France and Ireland, and, perhaps, also in Wales. His peculiar traits were
  modified later by the commingling of his blood with that of the Northmen.
  But his early racial point of view was far distant from that of the
  pagans who brought the worship of Woden into Britain, and the
  assimilating influences of climate and intermarriage, even to this day,
  have not sufficed to break down the barrier between the two cults.
  Christianity was probably planted in Great Britain long before the Romans
  left. The first native account we have of its early history there is that
  of Bede, in his allusions to the conversion (176-190) of Lucius, King of
  the Britons, and to the establishment by Ninian of the Church of Candida
  Casa at Whithorn, in Galloway. This foundation is supposed to have been
  made about the year 397, and Ninian (who died about 432) was therefore
  the precursor and contemporary of St. Patrick (396-469 ?). More than a
  hundred and sixty years later, Columba, the Scot, came from the island of
  Iona to North Britain, and converted the Picts, as Bede tells us in the
  following passage (Eccl. Hist., bk. iii., ch. iv.):
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