A GUID Conceit by Dr F W Boreham

Another essay found tucked away in F W Boreham's writing desk. A pencilled date indicates the essay was written or published somewhere on 2 July 1954.

An avalanche of good-natured ridicule has to send it on the head of the legendary Scotsman who mingled with his supplications a petition in which he craved a guid conceit of himsel’. But is the criticism just? Mark Rutherford prayed for the healing of his self-despisings – a request that is probably only the obverse side of the same coin.