Identifier: abrahamlincolna2628robi (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln as a man of letters
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, Luther Emerson, 1867-1945
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Chicago : The Reilly & Britton Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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nce tohis work as well as immortality to what he said. Itwas the feeling which was one day to be enshrinedin language of faultless beauty, when his spirit hadbeen mellowed by sorrow and service. There was a distinctive strain of the spiritual andthe prescient in Abraham Lincoln. He was in everysense of the word a child of the earth. His reac-tions were strikingly human. In one accent or an-other they seem to have touched, for a note of har-mony, every chord of individual experience. What-ever share of genius posterity will finally ascribe tohim, it will doubtless find a basis for the judgmentin his possession of strains both romantic and classic.There were moments when sweetness and tender-ness gave charm to what he said or did. He couldrise to feelings that were, on the occasion, majesticin manner and effect. Yet he could be ludicrous.He had instincts that were genuinely dramatic. Hewas by nature a gentleman,—honest, upright, sin-cerely desirous of self-improvement. Ever thoughtful
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On the Road to Washington 129 of the rights and feelings of others, Lincoln was aman of fine and generous sympathies. His departure from Springfield for Washingtonwill always be commemorated by the Farewell Ad-dress of February n, 1861. In its one hundredand fifty words, there is no impression of studiedeffect, but of simple, sincere confession.1 Spring-field and its people were dear to him. His twenty-five years of experience there had been years oflong, steady pull upward. He had attained the high-est goal of a mans ambition. That was all clear tohim now. But there was another and necessarygoal ahead of him. It carried with it the burdenof the Union. What Washington had begun, hemust retrieve and preserve—-a greater task. WithGod everywhere for good, how could he fail ? Inhis great task, he made it plain that he placed trustin His assistance, and he bade his hearers do like-wise. He shared with them his honors; let themshare with him the faith that the end should bedivinely guided

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