. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . *s\^. Wty Nww £^M MY friends, Dr. Talmage has told you that the typicalAmerican is yet to come. Let me tell you that he hasalready come. Great types, like valuable plants, are slow toflower and fruit. But from the union of these colonists, Puri-tans and Cavaliers, from the straightening of their purposesand the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a cen-tury, came he who stands as the first typical American, the firstwho comprehended within himself all the strength and gentle-ness, all the majesty and grace of this repu
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . *s\^. Wty Nww £^M MY friends, Dr. Talmage has told you that the typicalAmerican is yet to come. Let me tell you that he hasalready come. Great types, like valuable plants, are slow toflower and fruit. But from the union of these colonists, Puri-tans and Cavaliers, from the straightening of their purposesand the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a cen-tury, came he who stands as the first typical American, the firstwho comprehended within himself all the strength and gentle-ness, all the majesty and grace of this republic—Abraham Lin-coln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in hisardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and in the depthsof his great soul the faults of both were lost. He was greaterthan Puritan, greater than Cavalier, in that he was American,and that in his honest form were first gathered the vast andthrilling forces of his ideal government—charging it with suchtremendous meaning and elevating it so much above humans
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