Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lincoln, the Progressive: An Address
AS WE pause to honor Lincoln's memory we are reminded of the great changes which have come to our nation since the stirring days of the civil war. Slavery is dead. The union is preserved. A great world war has been fought. The bitterness of the old sectional conflict has died away. Our population has increased threefold, and in the new era of science and invention new issues have arisen and new dangers threaten. Again we find ourselves in the midst of a con?ict, which, when we stop to comprehend what is going on around us, is seen to involve the same basic principles of human rights and individual liberty that were saved for us by our fathers in Lincoln's day.
As time passes Lincoln's stature seems to grow. Generals and their battles grow dim. We have almost forgotten that slaves ever lived on American soil. Yet Lincoln seems to stand in our midst, speaking as a prophet of old; and we know now that he was not only the great president of the civil war time, but one of the truly great men of all nations and of all time.
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