Tributes to Abraham Lincoln: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Providing Testimonials Lauding the 16th President of the United States (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Tributes to Abraham Lincoln: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Providing Testimonials Lauding the 16th President of the United States

Effusive eulogy is repulsive to. His majestic simplicity; one might as we'll patronize the Rockies. And those wri ters whose excess of blame or praise has either mutilated or embalmed him rather than made him vital to our apprehension, should be studiously avoided. When he is treated as a sort of quarry from. Whichto excavate the material for the latest brand of politi cal or economic speculation. We shall do well to ignore the ignominious proc ess. The living Lincoln, as one of the chosen individualities regnant, in his tory, a mighty unit where the majority are infinitessimal, a prophet of God in nobler aspects than sacerdotal inves titures always supply, a leader and a, law-giver who could have. Been en shrined in Old Testament without any dislocation or irrever ence, should not be submitted to steri' eotyped processes, nor thrust into the rhetorical generalizations which fail to elucidate the essential character of the man.

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