Among other persons of distinction, who united themselves to him [the earl of Montrose, in support of the royalists and Charles I of England], was Lord Napier of Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Among other persons of distinction, who united themselves to him [the earl of Montrose, in support of the royalists and Charles I of England], was Lord Napier of Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced." in the context of "David Hume, The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688 (1812) Vol.7, Ch.58" to mean that wisdom is timeless.