 Did Scottish Idealism constitute a revitalization and continuation of the Scottish philosophical tradition, or its demise? James McCosh who published The Scottish Philosophy, Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton, in 1874 had no doubt. Writing from the distant perspective of Princeton he held that the Scottish philosophy was now opposed within Scotland on two fronts—by the materialism of Bain on the one hand, and on the other, by the Hegelianism of Caird (described by George Davie as “a very untypical Scotsman and one quite exceptionally apathetic to educational customs of the country” (Davie 1961 86)).