Identifier: reallincolnportr01weik (find matches)
Title: The real Lincoln : a portrait
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ogeneity to a state of relatively definite coherent heter-ogeneity; and during which the constituent units of the com-munity become even more distinctly individuated. So much for a university-trained philosophers concep-tion of social evolution! But note how Lincoln, a clear-headed, self-educated man illustrates the law of progress:Many independent men everywhere in these States afew years back in their lives were hired laborers. The pru-dent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land forhimself, then labors on his own account another while, andat length hires another new beginner to help him. This isthe just and generous and prosperous system which opensthe way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy andprogress and improvement of condition to all. The failure of Lincoln to return to Congress after theend of his first and only term in 1849 rnarks the beginningof an important epoch in his development. Believing he
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^ < HE TAKES UP EUCLID 239 was politically moribund and yearning to broaden hisknowledge, he turned most heartily to intensive study. He secured a copy of Euclid, related Herndon, andtook it with him on the circuit. Of nights and at odd timeshe would bury himself in the study of the problems of thegreat Greek geometrician. Occasionally I traveled withhim, occupying the same bed, he reading by the light of atallow candle. Sometimes the bedsteads were slightly shortso that his feet would extend a trifle over the footboard.Thus engaged he would study for hours. Having appar-ently abandoned all thought of ever rising above the wavesof the political sea, he became not only deeply studiousand abstracted, but markedly reticent if not gloomy. One day about this time I purchased at Bradford &Johnsons book-store in Springfield a copy of a work calledThe Annual of Science, as I now recall the name, and wasreading it when Lincoln came in the oflice. In answer tohis query: Billy, what are y

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