Forget incense and the lotus position, forget notions of getting rid of thoughts or navel gazing, meditation is, more broadly and more helpfully for most people, getting to know our minds and hearts.

On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east.

None at all? No parents, no wives, no children of your own? Not one, thank God. Miller of Dee, that's me.

Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.