upreme American ideal cannot be appreciated or understood unless the experiences buffeting the way to it, and their circumstances, are known for what they mean to his life. Trivial exp

nited States, Lincoln was asked for material from

eat folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed in a single

st admiring friends hired him for a certain period and became greatly disgusted at the young man's preference for idling his time away reading. Another friend one d

say. Reading was bad enough waste of time, but to be

od to learn why the prophet is without honor in his own country, sometimes not even known in his own age. Home people rarely or never understand the unusual worker, because they cannot

itself up anew to be a fundamental interpretation of American civilization. Like the great Newton, he built his world of principle out of the particulars of original experience, and found that it was the order of

rint." The social origin and development of Christ were far less obscure, humble and lowly in destitute

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one now to imagine how people lived then, if he will go into the deep woods with only a few simple tools and try to live. It c

ut the making of a man, for any extended description to be

to say with Maurice

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e master, all

ginal researches into the early life

r so many kinds of a fool. He could listen unruffled to cant, to violence, to criticism, just and unjust. Amazingly he absorbed from each man the real thing he had to offer, annexed him by sh