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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was educated. What is the test of education? We have, says Pascal, three principal objects in the study of truth, one to discover it when we see it, another to demonstrate it when we possess it, and the third and last to discriminate it from the false when we examine it. By what means soever a man reaches the result, he has an educated mind if he has obtained this power of vision, power of demonstration, and power of discrimination. If devoting the choicest years of one's boyhood to the making of Latin verses educates a man to this, well and good; yet only shal low-pated fools will insist that a course of Latin verse-making is the only means whereby one may become thus educated. Pre eminently Lincoln did possess the power of vision - seeing clearly (not accidentally stumbling into) the true course to pursue; power of demonstration - causing others to see the same thing, (making due allowance for moral strabismus and color-blindness); and pow er oi discrimination - with rarest sagacity avoiding bemg misled by the glare of any false lights.
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