The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
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Excerpt from The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: Selected and Edited, With Introduction Progress, civilization, advancement, are terms often employed by orators, politicans, and demagogues to flatter us into a belief that the forces which these expressions connote are initiated, guided, and directed by! humanity as a whole. They would have us understand that a mass of humanity called a nation does consciously and determinedly set out on an enterprise which is progressive, advancing, and enlightening to itself; they pander to the common mind by ascribing to it qualities of foresight and initiation, and by praising it for sustaining noble enthusiasms for its own salvation. If there be one thing more than any other which history teaches us it is that such progress and development are due, not to the efforts of a nation as a whole, but to the creating will of a few single individuals who, from time to time, have been precipitated, so to speak, from the flux and flow of the mass, and have focussed in themselves those forces which their prophetic souls sensed to be progressive and civilizing, and who have dared greatly and highly to direct them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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