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Excerpt from The Marvellous Year
Dearer to America than all other men of that wonder ful year is Abraham Lincoln. Even the great names of Washington and Jefferson burn with an inferior fire. Why is this Perhaps because the heart of man is so contrived that only martyrdom can move its deepest emo tion. More than this, we feel Lincoln to be one of us, and so a brother; yet also to have in him that star of conscience that makes him kindred to the ideal toward which in our nobler moments we all aspire. He touches us, therefore, on our human side and on our angel side. So Lincoln has become the American Ideal, the chief unifying force in our multiform republic. To him death was not death, for after all these years he is more alive than when he walked among us. His spirit is now the most vital breath of life under the ribs of the nation. He is the power among us that makes us think of something besides dollars and dividends. He is a voice asserting the concerns of the soul, declaring that a life is more than a living, that manhood is more than money.
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