more difficult, delicate and consequential message from generation to generation, so much needed in patriotic appreciation, to

es in the making of Lincoln's life run by too fast in the reading for the strengthening life-interest to be received and appreciated. The human process of Lincoln's youth, with its supreme lesson of patience and labor and growth, is lost in consideri

ln's heroism was the far severer test of a hard struggle through many years. He came near encountering every discouragement and in mas

g through the frailties and vicissitudes of hi

h and sadness, s

ht-errant of

ro born of

nce; a Master

istory. What Lincoln thought he was and what he made out of his relations with those around him are only incidental to the inspiring patience with which

ow did he do it? The probably correct answer is that he didn't d

rom the phrases of patriotic eulogy for this great American, because the task and significance of railsplitting no longer bear the force of meaning that they did to the boys of Civil-War days. This means t

comes more figurative than concrete in its illu

ail-pile as he

ndid strength th

of him testin

eed the measu