Word: lincolnitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon Moses and his guest came to the Morijo Loita Primary School, a windswept arrangement of tin-roofed buildings on a bare hillside a few miles from Moses' boma. Several dozen schoolchildren were gathered in a classroom of the sort that made one think of the places where Abraham Lincoln went to school on the Indiana frontier. The children sat in rows at long crude benches. They were asked about their encounters with the wild animals, in reality and in dreams. A boy named Seketo told of being chased by a lion once while he was herding cows...
Revering men like Lincoln ensures that the American people will forever be up to the challenge of republican self-government in his speeches, we come to understand the nobility of the American project, that of conceiving a nation in liberty...
...noble Lincoln was heroic precisely because he defended the people against others who would tyrannize them. With the power of a Caesar, he played the role of an anti-Caesar...
Though they rejected his senate bid in 1858, Lincoln never rejected the people. In 1860, the people discerned his greatness and made him their president...
...Lincoln was the highest democratic man. By studying him, we glimpse a peak of human excellence. Small-souled men throw spit-balls at the mountain. Ignore them. Join the others embarking a climb. They may not reach the top. They may not become Lincolns. But they just might become serious human beings. That's no small distinction...