:18:01
- You're a stone lighter.
- Oh, that's nothing.
:18:06
Do you see Wester Hoevdi?
:18:08
To climb Wester Hoevdi without a rope
was another of the old trials.
:18:12
Well, what do you say?
:18:14
- (Andrew) Shall we make it a race?
- Aye.
:18:22
Look.
:18:24
The hills of Scotland.
:18:44
I forbid it. A mad race like this
can settle nothing.
:18:49
I'll not speak here of the defiance
in which I've been set by my own son.
:18:53
I want you to speak of it.
This affects every man on the island.
:18:57
You keep silent.
:18:59
The boy's right, Peter Manson.
:19:01
We're dealing with a question each
one of us has got to face squarely.
:19:06
It's your homes, your families
and your future lives.
:19:09
- Am I no right?
- (Murmurs of assent)
:19:14
I'm no trying to read my elders any
lesson. A man must think for himself.
:19:18
For hundreds of years now,
:19:20
this parliament has met
every working morn.
:19:24
But in a thousand years,
it's never faced the problem we face.
:19:27
Year by year,
the population's shrinking.
:19:30
Look what happened to Mingulay
and St Kilda,
:19:33
islands barren now
that once supported people.
:19:35
What happened in the Hebrides
will happen here.
:19:38
You canna fight against it,
you canna stop it.
:19:41
As I see it, it's...
it's every man for himself.
:19:45
That's all I have to say.
:19:48
And I came back here to say it.
:19:54
Well, as you all know, I'm no
great hand at public speaking.
:19:58
Except in kirk, John!