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 | | The Scottish Enlightenment flourished, characterized by high originality and concern for reason, rhetoric and "common sense," applied to an examination of the natural world and society, and displayed in the works of David Hume, Tobias Smollet, Francis Hutcheson, the physicist Joseph Black, the geologist James Hutton, Adam Smith and others. |
 | | 1832 Scottish Reform Bill granted the franchise to males who held a ten pound annual lease, raising the number of voters from 5,000 to 65,000, a higher proportion of increase than in England. |
 | | Scottish twentieth-century mortality rates were higher than those for England; in 1936 the infant mortality rate for Glasgow was 180 per cent that of Chicago and 290 per cent that for Stockholm. |
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