Boy Scouts - The the greatest moral force that the World had ever known?

In 1912, former British Prime Minister Lord Rosebery provided some memorable observations, made in the course of an address he gave to the Boy Scouts of Midlothian:

"If I were to form the highest ideal for my country, it would be a nation of which the manhood was exclusively composed of men who had been, or were, Boy Scouts, and were trained in the Boy Scout theory...

Such a nation would be the honour of Mankind...

It would be the greatest moral force that the World had ever known."