Lincoln centennial number . From a photograph by Brady in the collection of Robert Coster. Half-tone plate engraved by H. Davidson ABRAHAM LINCOLN Wm&. hrom a photograph by Brady. HngraTed on wood by R. G. Tietze LINCOLN AND HIS SON TADLincolns youngest son, Thomas, familiarly called Tad, was born April 4, 1853, and died in Chicago, July 15, 1871. LINCOLN THE LEADER 499 two acquired skills and two acquiredknowledges: the skill and knowledge ofthe long-practiced lawyer, which helpedhim immeasurably in his executive deci-sions, as Frederick Trevor Hill has clearlypointed out; and his quickly and
Lincoln centennial number . From a photograph by Brady in the collection of Robert Coster. Half-tone plate engraved by H. Davidson ABRAHAM LINCOLN Wm&. hrom a photograph by Brady. HngraTed on wood by R. G. Tietze LINCOLN AND HIS SON TADLincolns youngest son, Thomas, familiarly called Tad, was born April 4, 1853, and died in Chicago, July 15, 1871. LINCOLN THE LEADER 499 two acquired skills and two acquiredknowledges: the skill and knowledge ofthe long-practiced lawyer, which helpedhim immeasurably in his executive deci-sions, as Frederick Trevor Hill has clearlypointed out; and his quickly and almostinstinctively acquired skill and knowledgeof military strategy. His letters to gen-erals in the field are those of a master ofstrategy who should use the symbolismof iEsop and the irony of Socrates. An intensely important feature of Lin-colns leadership would be omitted ifnothing were said of the effect upon histhought and conduct of his belief in andconscious communion with an almighty,mysterious, and beneficent Power, con-cerning itself not less with human affairsthan with the march of seasons and thesweep of constellations. The deity w
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