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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 American Historical Foundation
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: (U.S.) : American Historical Foundation
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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crificing tenderness with the sacrificialsternness of his prototypes in Jewish history. Hecould lay his own child on the altar without a pang.The strongest element of his character was religiousfanaticism. Taught from earliest childhood to fear God and keep his commandments, he be-lieved firmly in the divine authenticity of theBible, and memorized much of its contents. Hisfavorite texts became literal and imperative man-dates ; he came to feel that he bore the commissionand enjoyed the protection of the Almighty. Inhis Kansas camps he prayed and saw visions; be-lieved he wielded the sword of the Lord and ofGideon; had faith that the angels encompassedhim. He desired no other safeguard than his ownideas of justice and his own convictions of duty.These ideas and convictions, however, refused obe-dience to accepted laws and morals, and were merefantastic and pernicious outgrowths of his religiousfanaticism. His courage partook of the reckless-ness of insanity. He did not count odds. What
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JOHN BROWN. harpers ferry 193 are five to one ? he asked; and at another time chap. xi.he said, One man in the right, ready to die, willchase a thousand. Perhaps he even believed heheld a charmed life, for he boasted that he hadbeen fired at thirty times and only his hair hadbeen touched. In personal appearance he was talland slender, with rather a military bearing. He 8?n th™ i i • •iii? • i i_o i Atlantic, had an impressive, nail-persuasive, halt-command- April, 1872.ing manner. He was always very secretive, af-fected much mystery in movements, came andwent abruptly, was direct and dogmatic to blunt-ness in his conversation. His education was scant,his reading limited; he wrote strong phrases inbad orthography. If we may believe the intima-tions from himself and those who knew him best,he had not only acquired a passionate hatred of theinstitution of slavery, but had for twenty yearsnursed the longing to become a liberator of slavesin the Southern States. To this end he read

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