Lincoln Centenary Services, 1909 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lincoln Centenary Services, 1909Such was the basic character of Lincoln's patriotism. To understand it fully is to understand his attitude to the critical questions of his age - an attitude which at that time was largely misunderstood and misinterpreted. And Who will say that in this day and generation there is no need for a new emphasis on Lincoln's idea of patriotism? With the growth of our material prosperity, with the ex pansion of our country to the isles of the sea, with the many changes that have taken place in the life and the aims of our people, with the obscuring of our ideals, with the tendency in some quarters to scorn the Declaration of Independence as an aggregate of glittering generalities, it is essential to bear in mind the purpose for which our institutions were created~ - to bring freedom, justice, and happiness to men - and that to serve this purpose is the highest form of American patriotism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.