But the pattern of rapidly increasing consolidation is not quite the unstoppable, Darwinist expansion that it seems.

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The pattern that new, innovative industries have followed has been one of expansion.

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Two floors go on to depict the intellectual flowering of the Scottish enlightenment (epitomised by David Hume and Adam Smith), and the economic explosion fuelled by British imperial expansion that took place after the union with England, with exhibits ranging from Paisley-pattern textiles to silverware and steam engines.

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