To illustrate the extraordinary argumentativeness of the Scots
there is a story of a Scotchman who lay dying in a London
hospital. A woman visitor wanted to sing to him some hymns, but
he told her that he had all his life fought against using hymn
tunes in the service of God, but he was willing to argue the
question with her as long as his senses remained. I say that
when a man in the face of death is willing to stand for the
truth as it has been taught to him, it is out of such stuff that
heroes are made. (Text.)--JOHN WATSON.
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=Argument, Ineffectual=--See DOCILITY, SPIRITUAL.