Thomas Mitchell's essays on how to live well were completed in
1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also
confidence about the world and society that were about to be
shattered. No doubt some thoughts he expressed would have been
impossible to reaffirm five years later. As we commemorate the
centenary of terrible and unprecedented conflict, his intelligent
voice from the past gives us an insight into how people thought
before it and what was lost. This does not mean that Mitchell's
ideas are not also an individual's, but it is now the combination
of freshness and distance in this previously unpublished prose that
makes it so compelling. His style also says much about the
education system in Scotland and rural Aberdeenshire in particular,
and his background was very similar to that of Lewis Grassic
Gibbon. Though they undoubtedly had different politics, they would
both have agreed on the importance of society.
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