. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . SSlIf 1 j VIEW OF THOMAS LINCOLNS FARM. WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS BORN. Farm now occupied by Mrs. Richard Creal. The house stood back of the group of trees near the right center of picture; a rock spring is at the end of the path under the group of trees in left center. But this you can believe—Abraham Lincolnsstory was poor enough at the start; but, for AT LINCOLN S HOME 201. that reason, his rise was all the more wonderful. For, as in fairy-tale orwonder-story, the prince or hero was all t
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . SSlIf 1 j VIEW OF THOMAS LINCOLNS FARM. WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS BORN. Farm now occupied by Mrs. Richard Creal. The house stood back of the group of trees near the right center of picture; a rock spring is at the end of the path under the group of trees in left center. But this you can believe—Abraham Lincolnsstory was poor enough at the start; but, for AT LINCOLN S HOME 201. that reason, his rise was all the more wonderful. For, as in fairy-tale orwonder-story, the prince or hero was all the more notable because of thedifficulties he overcame or the tasks he accomplished, so with our greatAmerican. The fact thathe faced and conqueredobstacles that have dis-couraged millions of lessdetermined men, — ob-stacles of birth, upbring-ing, surroundings, educa-tion, and circumstance,—makes him all the moreour hero, all the more acharacter to be admired,honored, wondered at, re-vered. Boys and girls,continued Uncle Tom,solemnly, I stand be-fore his story in simpleamazement, marveling atthe ways of Providence,that, in his case, so set at naught mans most mathematical statement thatout of nothing, nothing can come. Ex nihilo nihil fit murmured classical Bert. Is nt this one of the cases in which you can say that the exceptionproves the rule ? inquired Roger. Perhaps so, Uncle Tom replied, and yet it is even more one of thecases that show how wonderfully and howwi
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