Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . General Ashley at the close of his distinguished and use-ful life to say: When I heard Mr. Lincoln proclaim at Altonthat it was a question between right and wrong his faceglowed as if tinged with a halo, and to me he looked theprophet of hope and joy, The impressiveness and force of Mr. Lincolns heroicstature was accentuated by the symmetry and grace of hisphysical construction. In size and form the members of hisbody were aU in perfect proportion. Considered separatelythey seemed ponderous, but the size of each one was in fault-less ha
Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . General Ashley at the close of his distinguished and use-ful life to say: When I heard Mr. Lincoln proclaim at Altonthat it was a question between right and wrong his faceglowed as if tinged with a halo, and to me he looked theprophet of hope and joy, The impressiveness and force of Mr. Lincolns heroicstature was accentuated by the symmetry and grace of hisphysical construction. In size and form the members of hisbody were aU in perfect proportion. Considered separatelythey seemed ponderous, but the size of each one was in fault-less harmony with the heroic figure of which it formed apart. Some writers have unfortunately referred to his longarms and his large hands and feet, forgetting as it seemsthat Mr. Lincoln was a very large man and would have beenill-formed if any of his members had been of less dimensions,Nicolay says: The first impression will naturally be that aman with such long limbs and large and prominent featurescould not possibly be handsome; and this would be true of a. LINCOLNS PERSONAL APPEARANCE 53 man of ordinary height. Long limbs and large and strongfeatures were fitted to this unusual stature, and harmonizedperfectly with it; there was no effect of disproportion orgrotesqueness.^ Sculptors and critics are agreed in characterizing Lin-colns hands as marvelously shapely and beautiful. Borglumsays: His hands were not disproportionately large. In hisearly life hard labor had developed the palms of his hands,and the thick muscle part of his thumb was full and strong;but this shrank later to the thumb of a literary man. Bartlett says: The photograph of Lincoln and Little Tadshows the Presidents great style of hand and its splendidarticulation with the wrist. A hand fit not only for the firstand greatest American, but in every way worthy to write, as hedid, literature that is nothing less than biblical in its majesticsimplicity.^ Bernard says: Next to the face, as an index of Lincolnscharacter
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