Abraham Lincoln
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Address; Delivered Before the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, in Witherspoon Hall, Philadelphia, Friday Afternoon, February 12, 1909 Having accepted, perhaps without due meditation, the duty of this hour, I approach its performance with extreme diffidence and distrust, growing out of a profound appreciation of the vastness of the subject, and the dignity and solemnity of the occasion. This day marks the rounded century since the birth of the greatest American. It seems almost inconceivable that Abraham Lincoln passed from life a half-century ago, - lacking seven years - at the early age of fifty-six, nowadays scarcely accounted as the full maturity of ripened manhood. As I look into the faces of this gathering of earnest men and women, I realize there is a small minority here who, like myself, remember seeing the great President in person, but to the large majority he is but an historic character, something already immense and increasing in stature as the years go by, but he is not, nor can he be a close personal presence as we always think of those, our contemporaries, whom we saw and loved in life. Since Lincoln died there has come into existence, especially during the last twenty-five years, a vast literature concerning him, surpassed in volume, perhaps, only by the celebrated Napoleonic literature relating to one prodigy of human genius, - utterly divorced from conscience, - and including the history of Europe during an eventful period; and this literature has been the growth of three-quarters of a century. 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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