Abraham Lincoln : a biographical essay . uelty to animals in general, so the aspectof other cases of suffering and wrong wrought uphis moral nature, and set his mind to work againstcruelty, injustice, and oppression in general. As his sympathy went forth to others, it attractedothers to him. Especially those whom he called theplain people felt themselves drawn to him bythe instinctive feeling that he understood, esteemed,and appreciated them. He had grown up amongthe poor, the lowly, the ignorant. He never ceasedto remember the good souls he had met amongthem, and the many kindnesses they had
Abraham Lincoln : a biographical essay . uelty to animals in general, so the aspectof other cases of suffering and wrong wrought uphis moral nature, and set his mind to work againstcruelty, injustice, and oppression in general. As his sympathy went forth to others, it attractedothers to him. Especially those whom he called theplain people felt themselves drawn to him bythe instinctive feeling that he understood, esteemed,and appreciated them. He had grown up amongthe poor, the lowly, the ignorant. He never ceasedto remember the good souls he had met amongthem, and the many kindnesses they had done in his mental development he had risenfar above them, he never looked down upon they felt and how they reasoned he knew, forso he had once felt and reasoned himself. Howthey could be moved he knew, for so he had oncebeen moved himself, and he practiced moving mind was much larger than theirs, but it thor-oughly comprehended theirs; and while he thoughtmuch farther than they, their thoughts were ever. x^ X $ X X 1. - ^ ABRAHAM LINCOLN 71 present to him. Nor had the visible distance be-tween them grown as wide as his rise in the worldwould seem to have warranted. Much of his back-woods speech and manners still clung to him. Al-though he had become Mr. Lincoln to his lateracquaintances, he was still Abe to the Natsand Billys and Daves of his youth; and theirfamiliarity neither appeared unnatural to them,nor was it in the least awkward to him. He stilltold and enjoyed stories similar to those he had toldand enjoyed in the Indiana settlement and at NewSalem. His wants remained as modest as they hadever been; his domestic habits had by no meanscompletely accommodated themselves to those ofhis more high-born wife; and though the Ken-tucky jeans apparel had long been dropped, hisclothes of better material and better make wouldsit ill sorted on his gigantic limbs. His cottonumbrella, without a handle, and tied togetherwith a coarse string to keep it
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