Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815 and1820 as well as the situation outside Scotland; (ii) to provide the first full account of the rising itself; and (iii) to examine the legacies of both the politics of 1815-20 and the Radical War.

This book, ‘Spirit of Ultimate Life: Man’s Soul and Eternity,’ will enlighten you on the spiritual anthropology of man, though created in the image and after the likeness of God, whether you are white, black, or red- Indian. We belong to one family in Christ in whom all things consist, provided we believe in Him. Again, we are of three categories, and it is by these categories that everyone will stand naked before the judgment seat of God: the natural man, the carnal man and the spiritual man.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.