True, Scotland’s great minds in the age of Enlightenment, such as David Hume, Adam Smith, and even the national poet, Robert Burns, were all fervent advocates of “Britishness,” whatever that might mean today. Yet an identity-based campaign could have resorted to the heritage of the Scottish Renaissance of the mid-twentieth century or to the Celtic Revival and Celtic Twilight movements, which awakened a spirit of cultural nationalism among Scots in the late nineteenth century.
诚然，启蒙时代苏格兰的伟大思想家——如大卫·休谟、亚当·斯密乃至于国民诗人罗伯特·彭斯（Robert Burns）——无不是“英国性”的强烈支持者，不管今天这可能意味着什么。但基于身份的运动本可以诉诸于二十世纪中叶的苏格兰复兴（Scottish Renaissance）或在19世纪末唤醒了苏格兰人文化民族主义精神的凯尔特复兴和凯尔特曙光（Celtic Revival and Celtic Twilight）等运动。