Colin's review of Selected Speeches and Writings: Abraham Lincoln
Selected Speeches and Writings: Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
Forged from his soul some less obscure version of the Great American Dream; felt the call of grace deep within; saw destiny before him always clearly as the sky; watched as Southern son and Northern boy stained field after field with one another's blood.
Who would deny that 600,000 dead bodies is the want of democracy, not its achievement? Yet I still believe that America's Democratic Futures will result from some more obscure portion of his greatness. Do not become enamored of Lincoln, for if we can learn from him, what we must then learn is that idolatry credits certainty and certainty credits violence unspeakable. It is his words that are the counterweight insofar as the attain, from time to time, that beauty unspeakable. Here is your prose of destiny and grace and grass fields and that Great American.
Who would deny that 600,000 dead bodies is the want of democracy, not its achievement? Yet I still believe that America's Democratic Futures will result from some more obscure portion of his greatness. Do not become enamored of Lincoln, for if we can learn from him, what we must then learn is that idolatry credits certainty and certainty credits violence unspeakable. It is his words that are the counterweight insofar as the attain, from time to time, that beauty unspeakable. Here is your prose of destiny and grace and grass fields and that Great American.
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