“There is a definite linkage between the Humanist legacy and the vernacular movement, in the sense that those scholars who did most to preserve the prestige of Buchanan as a classic text for Latin classes in Scotland were also the same men who did most to encourage the idea of the Scottish tongue as being as suitable as a vehicle for classic poetry as any other modern language.” HumanismLatinScots LanguageGeorge BuchananVernacular Poetry Book:The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century Source: The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century