“To understand the mentality and behavior of a people at three centuries’ remove, one must try to eliminate from his mind all the salient ideas and opinions that have helped to shape the thinking of the modern Westerner. This almost impossible task requires not only the complete eradication of ways of thinking that have become a matter of course; it demands substituting for them another set of ideas that were equally matter of course to the men of the earlier age” (Leyburn, 62).
Leyburn, James G. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962. Internet resource.
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