ABSTRACT
In 1907 that indefatigable campaigner for world peace, Andrew Carnegie, achieved one of his great ambitions: a meeting with the Emperor of Germany, which he imagined as a preliminary to the meeting he hoped to arrange between the Kaiser and Theodore Roosevelt. William Wallace and Robert Bruce were part of the intellectual baggage of the Scottish diaspora 'The Bible of the Scotch people’, in the words of the eighteenth-century historian, David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Both figures remained potent models of behaviour and national rallying points for Scots at home and in alien climes. During the ensuing conflict national leaders emerge who in their character and actions become in some sense representative of the nation as a whole. The effigy of William Wallace at the entrance of the Castle commemorates a man who was dedicated to exactly the same purpose as Mandela stands for today’s terrorist may become tomorrow’s hero.
