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| <tab>Gloomy though his writings often were, he remained, essentially, a man of progress and optimism, and was willing to believe or hope that “this auld warld, poorly handled and badly shot to pieces as it is, is slowly changing for the better and will some day be a decent and comfortable place in which to spend seventy-five or eighty years o’ one’s life.” (//Farmer's Advocate// 26 Jan. 1939) In a rhetoric which borrowed its phraseology from the forceful language of daily life and illustrations from the hard experiences of farming, McIntosh returned often to his favourite argument that life is a “school” in which we are gradually educated for existence at a higher level in the next life. | <tab>Gloomy though his writings often were, he remained, essentially, a man of progress and optimism, and was willing to believe or hope that “this auld warld, poorly handled and badly shot to pieces as it is, is slowly changing for the better and will some day be a decent and comfortable place in which to spend seventy-five or eighty years o’ one’s life.” (//Farmer's Advocate// 26 Jan. 1939) In a rhetoric which borrowed its phraseology from the forceful language of daily life and illustrations from the hard experiences of farming, McIntosh returned often to his favourite argument that life is a “school” in which we are gradually educated for existence at a higher level in the next life. |
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| <tab>For Glengarry farm writers, see also C. G. McKillican. At least one other GC-area farmer, Duncan Norman Morrison (28 June 1899-24 Jan. 1994), of Dalhousie Mills, is stated to have written articles in the 1920s for the //Farmer’s Advocate// and the //Canadian Countryman//. | <tab>For Glengarry farm writers, see also [[mckillican_charles_gordon|C. G. McKillican]]. At least one other GC-area farmer, Duncan Norman Morrison (28 June 1899-24 Jan. 1994), of Dalhousie Mills, is stated to have written articles in the 1920s for the //Farmer’s Advocate// and the //Canadian Countryman//. |
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