Abraham Lincoln Kentucky Mountaineer

Author : William E. Barton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484867757
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky Mountaineer: An Address Delivered Before the Faculty and Students of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, Thursday, March 8, 1923 written by William E. Barton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky Mountaineer: An Address Delivered Before the Faculty and Students of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, Thursday, March 8, 1923 Lives of great men encourage and assist us in propor tion as we realize that these men have interests in common with ourselves. There could be little profit for us in the study of the biography of a person wholly beyond the sphere of our personal interest. But, even though a character in history is known to have lived in a land remote, and in a period far distant from our own, we are profited in learning about him if we can discover that his ideals, struggles, hopes and attain ments had in them qualities and conditions akin to our own. We study a noble character, and it mirrors for us qualities of nobility in ourselves, qualities which we may hardly have known that we possessed. We read the life story of a hero, a patriot, a man truly great, and we say to ourselves that under like conditions we ourselves might have displayed qualities of heroism not wholly unlike those which he man ifested. Although we recognize the degree of his greatness as being far above that which we at present can hope to at tain, we are comforted and helped if we find his nobility to be the same in kind as our own best aspiration. High as he may tower above us, we still are at liberty to feel that the essen tial characteristics of his endeavor and success are akin to those which we ourselves possess. Even his faults and fail ures may help us, by giving us a' larger sense of companion ship with him. We do not greatly care for heroes inhuman ly good. We want to feel that, however good and great a man may have been, his goodness and his greatness are such as we ourselves may aspire to achieve. The Bible is an encouraging book, because, while it re veals to us a perfect standard of human life, and gives to us a long list of concise biographies of those who have aspired to attain that life, it faithfully records the motives and strug gles and faults and failures as well as the virtues and successesof those who participated in the struggle in which we have a share. The lives of these faithful men and women help us because we feel their kinship with ourselves; otherwise they would seem alien; if they did not seem too good to be true, at least they would appear hopelessly beyond our emulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.