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Show LINCOLN THE'man UKSSg&jlyKM! "grnphcrs tiecnuse of his lilgh place, NHfinHgWj( ls ,llt' llK1st fully recorded of them nil JvBShi; " although there ls no single book Bi. PMi "bout lilm that seems so suro to per- JlmXWiW hht ns tIie "L,fc of Scott" by s0011' 31vliiB Y II Is '" tllu vcry vnnc,y nni1 extent 11 tBK&M ot tl' studies of Lincoln's character fiAflfc thnt the strength of his hold on the ir Imagination of tho world Is stiowu. ' t if iVxVlS I'lfty-slx years linvo passed slnco MI not nm Who JS l10 ,nct his tragic death. Through all iomeless pull down the tlmt pclJoa l,,e ,ntcnrotnt ons of m lHoafl. Lit i character historical, nnnlytlcnl, po- tlCiiSO OPwptterMkt ctlcal-hnvo steadily Increased In nuin- NO WW flJlfientJUj J J her. Thu bnro facts of his unique, fO uliUd 0110 for y Jct strangely typical nnd significant fnmoafp " ff enrcer, arrnngo themselves In per L spcctlvo like the acts of a great up- cPfs oSL lifting tragedy. If he had lived In tho r'w days when myths wcro made. It Is ( A recent writer on Lincoln ns a "lover of mankind" hns likened him to two other great men who have become be-come n common possession of our Anglo-Saxon race. Although they seem almost ns far separated from each other ns from Lincoln himself, both Chaucer nnd Sir Walter Scott reveal to the careful observer the qualities that provoked a comparison apparently so remote. These nro the qualities of a lover of mankind. Chaucer displayed them In depleting, deplet-ing, with sympathy for all, tho group of widely various characters who made their Immortal Canterbury Pilgrimage together. Scott displayed them' not only through tho creatures of his Imagination, Im-agination, but also In his recorded relations re-lations with nil his fellow beings. In that respect Chaucer Is at a disadvantage, disad-vantage, because ho lived long before biography had attained anything llko Its modern nbundanco. Lincoln, Inter tlm:. Scott, nnd more tempting to bl- easy to Imagine that In (ho process of time ho would have grown Into a great mythical figure, a King Arthur of the New World, a hulf-dlvlno hero like thoso that wo associate with the most distant antiquity. Uut ho belonged to no such period. Ills nge Is one of tho most amply recorded re-corded In all history, and the records of his life aro so Intertwined with those of men and events quite without with-out poetic or heroic suggestion, that his feet can never bo wholly removed from tho earth. Indeed, It Is much better that no such possibility exists. We need to know that out of our common com-mon llfu can spring so extraordinary an cxamplo of tho development of which our human nature ls capnblc. When ull Is said nnd done, when hs wisdom, his patience, his sacrltlco aro fully remembered, wo shall delight pre-eminently to recall him as tho friendly, humorous, accessible lover of mankind. Youth's Companion. |