The Personal Influence of Abraham Lincoln

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Excerpt from The Personal Influence of Abraham Lincoln: A Sermon Preached on the National Fast-Day, Thursday, June 1st, 1865 I. Our first question, then, is this: Can we find, deeply graven upon the events of the last four years, the marks of the personal in¿uence of the man? I am not of the number of those who believe that the great events of history spring primarily from the enthusiasm, will, or abilities of the men who are the chief actors in their progress. Under God's direction, the history of man passes on from century to century, and, if we read it aright, we find that it portrays a constant progress. Each in its own place, for example, appear the successive discoveries in the arts and the sciences, and as the world was ripe for them, it would not have waited long, though Copernicus, or Faust, or Watt, or Newton, had died in infancy. So, too, Rome would have been mistress of the world, Caesar or no Caesar. The German empire would have exerted a commanding in¿uence in the middle ages, though Charlemagne had never been born, nor, seven centuries later, Charles V. Ascended the throne. Doubtless the papacy would have become supreme, even if Hildebrand had died an undistinguished monk. 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.