November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09/11/2001 - 344 páginas It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. |
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... reason and religion , into a faith in prog- ress and human effort " under God , " who ordains , blesses , and aids what- ever we do justly and according to what John Milton called Right Reason . But 1960s America had entered the ...
... reason . If humans were created equal among themselves and also given the capacity to choose evil and good , we also have the innate gift of reason to battle against and eventually overcome the will to power , the tyranny of hunger ...
... reason . Lincoln was , Herndon said , the " strongest man I ever saw ... [ in ] reason and logic .... The office of reason is to determine the truth . Truth is the power of reason , and Lincoln loved truth for its own sake . It was to him ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
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