egalitarianism

No one knows where it came from—just like the myth of Scottish egalitarianism.

For a mere generation, UK-wide public policy had matched the notion of Scottish egalitarianism, at least moderately.

And how has the Scottish myth of egalitarianism survived two and a half centuries of severe inequality?

But in America, born free of any aristocracy, the arrival of modernism and egalitarianism was a far more gentle affair.