Abraham Lincoln
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Address America is large and is growing larger. Once she was a thin strip of partially cleared land, bounded on the East by the vast ocean and on the West by the unexplored wilderness. Gradually she stretched westward till the Pacific Ocean was her boundary toward the going down of the sun. Now she extends westward to Hawaii and the Philippines, and no man dare say in terms of her international influence just where she is bounded Eastward. Those fields in Flanders and in France where her sons lie buried, those lands of the Near East that have been rescued from starvation and anarchy by her generosity, are bound to us by ties stronger than political bands and have given to the United States new areas, if not of territory or political control, at least of moral power and of ethical responsibility. But as America has grown, the fame of her great men has grown with it. The men who incarnated Americas ideal when America was thirteen small colonies, still worthily incarnate that ideal when America is forty-eight great states and half a world beside. Abraham Lincoln, who was doubtfully admitted to a place among Americas great men while he was living, and the North and the South were striving one against the other, is now the hero not only of North and South, but of an internationalized America. Our nation has expanded, our ideals have grown, our conception of what great men might be has vastly enlarged, but Washington and Lincoln are still adequate. Out of the fathomless ocean of oblivion which has buried the names and memory of very nearly the entire human race, rises here and there a great and remembered name, that lifts its crest above the silent sea, like a mountain in an ocean archipelago, having on its headland a beacon, that casts its light afar. We are nearing the time, for a correct estimate of the life and character of Abraham Lincoln. Our knowledge of him is not yet quite complete. There still remain people who knew him and whose personal reminiscences as yet are unpublished. But that number is rapidly diminishing; nor is it at all likely that we have anything to learn about Lincoln which will greatly modify our view of him. More has been written about him than about any other man of modern times. Not even Napoleon has a more notable bibliography. The sources of information have been more diligently explored than in the case of any other man in American history. 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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