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“A society beset by terrifying social problems was threatened by realism... exacerbated by the deep-seated evils of poverty and overcrowding generated by Scotland's pell-mell industrialisation. To expose these would be revolutionary; it would also break the discipline of puritanism by mentioning the unmentionable... The Kirk enforced silence out of conviction, the middle class out of fear. The bogus community of the Kailyard was an alternative to the horror of the real thing.” Middle ClassScotlandSocial ProblemsIndustrialisationKailyardChurch Of Scotland Book:Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present Source: Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present